lalonde: 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." Versions of this data set have been used as an example dataset in MatchIt, twang, Matching, and CBPS.
Usage
data("lalonde")
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 614 observations on the following 10 variables.
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.