headst: Head Start data from Ludwig and Miller (2007)

Description

Subset of Ludwig-Miller (2007) data. Counties with missing poverty rate, or with both outcomes missing (hs and mortality) were removed. In the original dataset, Yellowstone County, MT (oldcode = 27056) was entered twice, here the duplicate is removed. Yellowstone National Park, MT (oldcode = 27057) is also removed due to it being an outlier for both outcomes. Counties with oldcode equal to (3014, 32032, 47010, 47040, 47074, 47074, 47078, 47079, 47096) matched more than one FIPS entry, so the county labels may not be correct. Mortality data is missing for Alaska.

Usage

headst

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 3,127 rows and 18 variables:

statefp: State FIPS code
countyfp: County FIPS code
oldcode: ID in Ludwig-Miller dataset
povrate: Poverty rate in 1960 relative to 300th poorest county (which had poverty rate 59.1984)
mortHS: Average Mortality rate per 100,000 for children aged 5-9 over 1973--83 due to causes addressed as part of Head Start's health services
mortInj: Average Mortality rate per 100,000 for children aged 5-9 over 1973--83 due to injury
hs90: High school completion rate in 1990 census, ages 18-24
pop: County population (1960 census)
sch1417: Percent attending school, ages 14-17 (1960 census)
sch534: Percent attending school, ages 5-34 (1960 census)
hs60: High school completion rate in 1960 census, ages 25+
pop1417: Population aged 14-17 (1960 census)
pop534: Population aged 5-34 (1960 census)
pop25: Population aged 25+ (1960 census)
urban: Percent urban (1960 census)
black: Percent black (1960 census)
statepc: State postal code
county: County name

References

Jens Ludwig and Douglas L. Miller. Does head start improve children's life chances? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(1):159–208, February 2007. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1162/qjec.122.1.159")