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Data from Hazlett (2020)
Description
Data on the treated units is from Dehejia and Wahba (1999), containing 185 individuals; data on the control units is from Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID-1), containing 2,490 individuals.
Format
A data frame with 2675 rows and 13 columns.
- nsw
treatment indicator of whether an individual participated in the National Supported Work (NSW) program
- age
- educ
years of education
- black
demographic indicator variables for Black
- hisp
idemographic indicator variables for Hispanic
- married
demographic indicator variables for married
- re74
real earnings in 1974
- re75
real earnings in 1975
- re78
real earnings in 1978, outcome
- u74
unemployment indicator for 1974
- u75
unemployment indicator for 1975
- u78
unemployment indicator for 1978
- nodegr
indicator for no high school degree
References
Dehejia, R. H., and Wahba, S. (1999). Causal effects in nonexperimental studies: Reevaluating the evaluation of training programs. Journal of the American statistical Association, 94(448), 1053-1062.
Hazlett, C. (2020). KERNEL BALANCING. Statistica Sinica, 30(3), 1155-1189.