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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.
data(NSW)
A data frame with 19204 observations on the following 13 variables.
treated
age
education
black
married
nodegree
dw
re74
re75
re78
hispanic
st
sample
Lalonde dataset has 722 experimental treated and control units. CPS has 15992 non experimental control units and PSID has 2490 non experimental control individuals.
see references
Lalonde, R. (1986) Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs, American Economic Review, 76, 604-620.