| mortgages {causaldata} | R Documentation |
Data from "How do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-Century GI Bills"
Description
The mortgages data contains data from Fetter (2015) on home ownership rates by men, focusing on whether they were born at the right time to be eligible for mortgage subsidies based on their military service.
Usage
mortgages
Format
A data frame with 214144 rows and 6 variables
- bpl
Birth State
- qob
Quarter of birth
- nonwhite
White/nonwhite race indicator. 1 = Nonwhite
- vet_wwko
Veteran of either the Korean war or World War II
- home_ownership
Owns a home
- qob_minus_kw
Quarter of birth centered on eligibility for mortgage subsidy (0+ = eligible)
Details
This data is used in the Regression Discontinuity chapter of The Effect.
Source
Fetter, D.K., 2013. How do mortgage subsidies affect home ownership? Evidence from the mid-century GI bills. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5(2), pp.111-47.
References
Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.