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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.

References

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.