lalonde

One of the datasets used by Dehejia and Wahba in their paper "Causal Effects 
in Non-Experimental Studies: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs."
Also used as an example dataset in the <code>MatchIt</code> package.

datasets

Provides functions for propensity score
estimating and weighting, nonresponse weighting, and diagnosis
of the weights.

Lane Burgette

twang

Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups

lalonde function

A data frame with 614 observations on the following 10 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>treat</code></dt>
<dd>1 if treated in the National Supported Work Demonstration,
 0 if from the Current Population Survey</dd> <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>age</dd> <dt><code>educ</code></dt>
<dd>years of education</dd> <dt><code>black</code></dt>
<dd>1 if black, 0 otherwise</dd> <dt><code>hispan</code></dt>
<dd>1 if Hispanic, 0 otherwise</dd> <dt><code>married</code></dt>
<dd>1 if married, 0 otherwise</dd> <dt><code>nodegree</code></dt>
<dd>1 if no degree, 0 otherwise</dd> <dt><code>re74</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1974 (pretreatment)</dd> <dt><code>re75</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1975 (pretreatment)</dd> <dt><code>re78</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1978 (outcome)</dd> 
</dl>

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Lalonde's National Supported Work Demonstration data — lalonde

A data frame with 614 observations on the following 10 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>treat</code></dt>
<dd>1 if treated in the National Supported Work Demonstration,
 0 if from the Current Population Survey</dd>

 <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>age</dd>

 <dt><code>educ</code></dt>
<dd>years of education</dd>

 <dt><code>black</code></dt>
<dd>1 if black, 0 otherwise</dd>

 <dt><code>hispan</code></dt>
<dd>1 if Hispanic, 0 otherwise</dd>

 <dt><code>married</code></dt>
<dd>1 if married, 0 otherwise</dd>

 <dt><code>nodegree</code></dt>
<dd>1 if no degree, 0 otherwise</dd>

 <dt><code>re74</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1974 (pretreatment)</dd>

 <dt><code>re75</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1975 (pretreatment)</dd>

 <dt><code>re78</code></dt>
<dd>earnings in 1978 (outcome)</dd>

 
</dl>

lalonde: Lalonde's National Supported Work Demonstration data

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