Matching (version 0.48)

lalonde: Lalonde Dataset

Description

Dataset used by Dehejia and Wahba (1999) to evaluate propensity score matching.

Usage

data(lalonde)

Details

Two demos are provided which use this dataset. The first, DehejiaWahba, replicates one of the models from Dehejia and Wahba (1999). The second demo, AbadieImbens, replicates the models produced by Abadie and Imbens http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~imbens/matlab/lalonde_exper_04feb2.m. Many of these models are found to produce good balance for the Lalonde data.

References

Dehejia, Rajeev and Sadek Wahba. 1999.``Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs.'' Journal of the American Statistical Association 94 (448): 1053-1062.

Lalonde, Robert. 1986. ``Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs.'' American Economic Review 76:604-620.

See Also

Also see Match and MatchBalance, balanceMV, balanceUV, GerberGreenImai