cz {ebci}R Documentation

Neighborhood effects data from Chetty and Hendren (2018)

Description

This dataset contains a subset of the publicly available data from Chetty and Hendren (2018). It contains raw estimates and standard errors of neighborhood effects at the commuting zone level

Usage

cz

Format

A data frame with 741 rows corresponding to commuting zones (CZ) and 10 columns corresponding to the variables:

cz

Commuting zone ID

czname

Name of CZ

state

2-digit state code

pop

Population according to the year 2000 Census

theta25

Fixed-effect estimate of the causal effect of living in the CZ for one year on children's percentile rank in the national distribution of household earnings at age 26 relative to others in the same birth cohort for children growing up with parents at the 25th percentile of national income distribution

theta75

Fixed-effect estimate of the causal effect of living in the CZ for one year on children's percentile rank in the national distribution of household earnings at age 26 relative to others in the same birth cohort for children growing up with parents at the 75th percentile of national income distribution

se25

Standard error of theta25

se75

Standard error of theta75

stayer25

Average percentile rank in the national distribution of household earnings at age 26 relative to others in the same birth cohort for stayers (children who grew up in the CZ and did not move) with parents at the 25th percentile of national income distribution.

stayer75

Average percentile rank in the national distribution of household earnings at age 26 relative to others in the same birth cohort for stayers (children who grew up in the CZ and did not move) with parents at the 75th percentile of national income distribution.

Source

https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?paper_id=599

References

Chetty, R., & Hendren, N. (2018). The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(3), 1163–1228. doi: 10.1093/qje/qjy006


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