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National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration data

Description

National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration data, of a job training program implemented during the Seventies in the United States and analyzed by Lalonde. This data set also contains data from the CPS (Current Population Survey) and PSID (Panel Study of Income Dynamics) datasets.

Usage

data(NSW)

Format

A data frame with 19204 observations on the following 13 variables.

treated
treated variable indicator
age
age
education
years of education
black
race indicator variable
married
marital status indicator variable
nodegree
indicator variable of not possessing a degree
dw
indicator of Dehejia-Wahba selected units
re74
real earnings in 1974
re75
real earnings in 1975
re78
real earnings in 1978 (post treatment outcome)
hispanic
ethnic indicator variable
st
indicator variable of Smith-Todd selected units
sample
number of reference sample: 1 = Lalonde, 2 = CPS and 3 = PSID

Details

Lalonde dataset has 722 experimental treated and control units. CPS has 15992 non experimental control units and PSID has 2490 non experimental control individuals.

Source

see references

References

Lalonde, R. (1986) Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs, American Economic Review, 76, 604-620.


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