nswdemo
data frame contains 722 rows and 10 columns.
These data are pertinent to an investigation of the way that
earnings changed, between 1974-1975 and 1978, for an experimental
treatment who were given job training as compared with a control
group who did not receive such training.The cps1
and psid1
data sets are two alternative
non-experimental "control" groups. cps2
and cps3
are
subsets of cps1
, designed to be better matched to the experimental
data than cps1
. Similary psid2
and psid3
are
subsets of psid1
, designed to be better matched to the experimental
data than psid1
nsw74demo
Lalonde, R. 1986. Evaluating the economic evaluations of training programs. American Economic Review 76: 604-620. Smith, J. A. and Todd, P.E. 2005,"Does Matching overcome. LaLonde?s critique of nonexperimental estimators", Journal of Econometrics 125: 305-353.
Dehejia, R.H. 2005. Practical propensity score matching: a reply to Smith and Todd. Journal of Econometrics 125: 355-364.
cps1
, cps2
, cps3
,
psid1
, psid2
, psid3