lalonde {twang} | R Documentation |
One of the datasets used by Dehejia and Wahba in their paper "Causal Effects
in Non-Experimental Studies: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs."
Also used as an example dataset in the MatchIt
package.
data(lalonde)
A data frame with 614 observations on the following 10 variables.
treat
age
educ
black
hispan
married
nodegree
re74
re75
re78
http://www.columbia.edu/~rd247/nswdata.html http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/MatchIt.html
Lalonde, R. (1986). Evaluating the econometric evaluations of training programs with experimental data. American Economic Review 76: 604-620.
Dehejia, R.H. andWahba, S. (1999). Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs. Journal of the American Statistical Association 94: 1053-1062.