jtrain2

Wooldridge Source: R.J. Lalonde (1986), “Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data,” American Economic Review 76, 604-620. Professor Jeff Biddle, at MSU, kindly passed the data set along to me. He obtained it from Professor Lalonde. Data loads lazily.

Format

A data.frame with 445 observations on 19 variables:

    train: =1 if assigned to job training

    age: age in 1977

    educ: years of education

    black: =1 if black

    hisp: =1 if Hispanic

    married: =1 if married

    nodegree: =1 if no high school degree

    mosinex: # mnths prior to 1/78 in expmnt

    re74: real earns., 1974, $1000s

    re75: real earns., 1975, $1000s

    re78: real earns., 1978, $1000s

    unem74: =1 if unem. all of 1974

    unem75: =1 if unem. all of 1975

    unem78: =1 if unem. all of 1978

    lre74: log(re74); zero if re74 == 0

    lre75: log(re75); zero if re75 == 0

    lre78: log(re78); zero if re78 == 0

    agesq: age^2

    mostrn: months in training