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thornton_hiv: Data from HIV information experiment in Thornton (2008)

Description

thornton_hiv comes from an experiment in Malawi looking at whether cash incentives could encourage people to learn the results of their HIV tests.

Usage

thornton_hiv

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 4820 rows and 7 variables

villnum

Village ID

got

Got HIV results

distvct

Distance in kilometers

tinc

Total incentive

any

Received any incentive

age

Age

hiv2004

HIV results

Details

This data is used in the Potential Outcomes Causal Model chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.

References

Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.