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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." Also used as an example dataset in the MatchIt package.

Usage

data(lalonde)

source

http://www.columbia.edu/~rd247/nswdata.html http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/MatchIt.html

References

Lalonde, R. (1986). Evaluating the econometric evaluations of training programs with experimental data. American Economic Review 76: 604-620. Dehejia, R.H. andWahba, S. (1999). Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs. Journal of the American Statistical Association 94: 1053-1062.