R Dataset / Package DAAG / nswpsid1
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the nswpsid1 data set which pertains to Labour Training Evaluation Data. The nswpsid1 data set is found in the DAAG R package. You can load the nswpsid1 data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("nswpsid1"). This will load the data into a variable called nswpsid1. If R says the nswpsid1 data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("DAAG") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the nswpsid1 R data set. The size of this file is about 117,396 bytes.
Labour Training Evaluation Data
Description
This data frame contains 2787 rows and 10 columns. These data are pertinent to an investigation of the way that earnings changed, between 1974-1975 and 1978, in the absence of training. Data for the experimental treatment group in nswdemo
are combined with the psid1
control data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) study.
Usage
psid1
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- trt
-
a numeric vector identifying the study in which the subjects were enrolled (0 = Control, 1 = treated).
- age
-
age (in years).
- educ
-
years of education.
- black
-
(0 = not black, 1 = black).
- hisp
-
(0 = not hispanic, 1 = hispanic).
- marr
-
(0 = not married, 1 = married).
- nodeg
-
(0 = completed high school, 1 = dropout).
- re74
-
real earnings in 1974.
- re75
-
real earnings in 1975.
- re78
-
real earnings in 1978.
Details
The cps1
and psid1
data sets are two non-experimental "control" groups, alternative to that in nswdemo
, used in investigating whether use of such a non-experimental control group can be satisfactory. cps2
and cps3
are subsets of cps1
, designed to be better matched to the experimental data than cps1
. Similary psid2
and psid3
are subsets of psid1
, designed to be better matched to the experimental data than psid1
. nswpsid1
combines data for the experimental treatment group in nswdemo
with the psid1
control data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) study.
Source
http://www.nber.org/~rdehejia/nswdata.html
References
Dehejia, R.H. and Wahba, S. 1999. Causal effects in non-experimental studies: re-evaluating the evaluation of training programs. Journal of the American Statistical Association 94: 1053-1062.
Lalonde, R. 1986. Evaluating the economic evaluations of training programs. American Economic Review 76: 604-620.
Smith, J. A. and Todd, P.E. "Does Matching overcome. LaLonde?s critique of nonexperimental estimators", Journal of Econometrics 125: 305-353.
Dehejia, R.H. 2005. Practical propensity score matching: a reply to Smith and Todd. Journal of Econometrics 125: 355-364.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.