Evaluating Treatment Effect of Training on Earnings

Description

a cross-section from 1974

number of observations : 2675

country : United States

Usage

data(Treatment)

Format

A dataframe containing :

treat

treated ?

age

age

educ

education in years

ethn

a factor with levels ("other","black","hispanic")

married

married ?

re74

real annual earnings in 1974 (pre-treatment)

re75

real annual earnings in 1975 (pre-treatment)

re78

real annual earnings in 1978 (post-treatment)

u74

unemployed in 1974 ?

u75

unemployed in 1975 ?

Source

Lalonde, R. (1986) “Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data”, American Economic Review, 604–620.

Dehejia, R.H. and S. Wahba (1999) “Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs”, Jasa, 1053–1062.

Dehejia, R.H. and S. Wahba (2002) “Propensity-score Matching Methods for Nonexperimental Causal Studies”, Restat, 151–161.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge, pp. 889–95.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations