lalonde

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 <code>MatchIt</code> package.

datasets

Provides functions for propensity score
estimating and weighting, nonresponse weighting, and diagnosis
of the weights.

Lane Burgette

twang

Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups

Matthew Cefalu

Greg Ridgeway

Dan McCaffrey

Andrew Morral

lalonde function

A data frame with 614 observations on the following 10 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>treat</code></dt>
<dd>1 if treated in the National Supported Work Demonstration,
 0 if from the Current Population Survey</dd> <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>age</dd> <dt><code>educ</code></dt>
<dd>years of education</dd> <dt><code>black</code></dt>
<dd>1 if black, 0 otherwise</dd> <dt><code>hispan</code></dt>
<dd>1 if Hispanic, 0 otherwise</dd> <dt><code>married</code></dt>
<dd>1 if married, 0 otherwise</dd> <dt><code>nodegree</code></dt>
<dd>1 if no degree, 0 otherwise</dd> <dt><code>re74</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1974 (pretreatment)</dd> <dt><code>re75</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1975 (pretreatment)</dd> <dt><code>re78</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1978 (outcome)</dd> 
</dl>

Format

Lalonde's National Supported Work Demonstration data — lalonde

A data frame with 614 observations on the following 10 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>treat</code></dt>
<dd>1 if treated in the National Supported Work Demonstration,
 0 if from the Current Population Survey</dd>

 <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>age</dd>

 <dt><code>educ</code></dt>
<dd>years of education</dd>

 <dt><code>black</code></dt>
<dd>1 if black, 0 otherwise</dd>

 <dt><code>hispan</code></dt>
<dd>1 if Hispanic, 0 otherwise</dd>

 <dt><code>married</code></dt>
<dd>1 if married, 0 otherwise</dd>

 <dt><code>nodegree</code></dt>
<dd>1 if no degree, 0 otherwise</dd>

 <dt><code>re74</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1974 (pretreatment)</dd>

 <dt><code>re75</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1975 (pretreatment)</dd>

 <dt><code>re78</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1978 (outcome)</dd>

 
</dl>

lalonde: Lalonde's National Supported Work Demonstration data

Description

Usage

Arguments

Format

References