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mpdta: County Teen Employment Dataset

Description

A dataset containing (the log of) teen employment in 500 counties in the U.S. from 2004 to 2007. This is a subset of the dataset used in Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021). See that paper for additional descriptions.

Usage

mpdta

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 2000 rows and 5 variables:

year

the year of the observation

countyreal

a unique identifier for a particular county

lpop

the log of 1000s of population for the county

lemp

the log of teen employment in the county

first.treat

the year that the state where the county is located raised its minimum wage, it is set equal to 0 for counties that have minimum wages equal to the federal minimum wage over the entire period.

treat

whether or not a particular county is treated in that year