R: Lalonde's National Supported Work Demonstration data
lalonde
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Lalonde's National Supported Work Demonstration data
Description
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.
Usage
data(lalonde)
Format
A data frame with 614 observations on the following 10 variables.
treat
1 if treated in the National Supported Work Demonstration,
0 if from the Current Population Survey
Lalonde, R. (1986). Evaluating the econometric evaluations of training programs
with experimental data. American Economic Review 76: 604-620.
Dehejia, R.H. and Wahba, S. (1999). Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies:
Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs. Journal of the American
Statistical Association 94: 1053-1062.