Dataset used by Dehejia and Wahba (1999) to evaluate propensity score matching.
data(lalonde)A data frame with 445 observations on the following 12 variables.
age in years.
years of schooling.
indicator variable for blacks.
indicator variable for Hispanics.
indicator variable for martial status.
indicator variable for high school diploma.
real earnings in 1974.
real earnings in 1975.
real earnings in 1978.
indicator variable for earnings in 1974 being zero.
indicator variable for earnings in 1975 being zero.
an indicator variable for treatment status.
Two demos are provided which use this dataset. The first,
DehejiaWahba, replicates one of the models from Dehejia and
Wahba (1999). The second demo, AbadieImbens, replicates the
models produced by Abadie and Imbens in their Matlab code.
Many of these models are found to produce good balance for the Lalonde
data.
Dehejia, Rajeev and Sadek Wahba. 1999.``Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs.'' Journal of the American Statistical Association 94 (448): 1053-1062.
LaLonde, Robert. 1986. ``Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs.'' American Economic Review 76:604-620.
Also see Match, GenMatch,
MatchBalance,
balanceUV,
ks.boot, GerberGreenImai