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alo_star_men: Replication data for Lin 2013

Description

A dataset containing the data to replicate: Lin, Winston. 2013. "Agnostic notes on regression adjustments to experimental data: Reexamining Freedman's critique." The Annals of Applied Statistics. Stat. 7(1): 295-318. doi:10.1214/12-AOAS583. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1365527200.

Usage

alo_star_men

Arguments

Format

A data frame with educational treatments and outcomes:

gpa0

high school GPA

sfsp

financial incentives and support treatment

ssp

support only treatment

GPA_year1

college GPA year 1

GPA_year2

college GPA year 2

Details

This data was originally taken from the following paper, subset to men who showed up to college, were in one of the arms with the support condition, and had GPA data for their first year in college.

Angrist, Joshua, Daniel Lang, and Philip Oreopoulos. 2009. "Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1(1): 136-63. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.1.1.136