A balanced panel of 3,231 NLSY79 respondents observed biennially from 1992 through 2002. The sample applies the paper's positive-earnings restriction and excludes respondents first treated in 1992, who have no pre-treatment period within the application window. The outcome is log earnings, the bad control is an occupation-based wage score, and treatment is job displacement.
Usage
data(nlsy_application)Format
A data.frame with 19,386 rows and 8 columns: id, year,
log_earnings, occ_score, G_window, race, female, and
educ_max_grade.
Source
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/; IPUMS USA, https://usa.ipums.org/usa/.
Details
Job displacement is defined as involuntarily leaving a job because of a layoff/job elimination or plant/company/workplace closure. The occupation score is time-varying at the individual level because respondents can change occupations, even though the score is fixed for a given occupation. Respondents first displaced in 1992 are excluded because the application requires a pre-treatment period within the 1992–2002 window.
This is a researcher-created subset of public-use NLSY79 data and an
occupation-score merge based on the public-use IPUMS USA 1990 5\
It is not an official NLSY79 data release. See the source files in
data-raw/ for the construction script and provenance.
Examples
data(nlsy_application)
head(nlsy_application)
#> id year log_earnings occ_score G_window race female
#> <int> <int> <num> <num> <int> <char> <lgcl>
#> 1: 8 1992 9.798127 2.040221 0 non_black_non_hispanic TRUE
#> 2: 8 1994 9.928180 2.748872 0 non_black_non_hispanic TRUE
#> 3: 8 1996 10.085809 2.748872 0 non_black_non_hispanic TRUE
#> 4: 8 1998 9.998798 2.748872 0 non_black_non_hispanic TRUE
#> 5: 8 2000 10.218298 2.748872 0 non_black_non_hispanic TRUE
#> 6: 8 2002 10.357743 2.358675 0 non_black_non_hispanic TRUE
#> educ_max_grade
#> <int>
#> 1: 14
#> 2: 14
#> 3: 14
#> 4: 14
#> 5: 14
#> 6: 14
table(nlsy_application$G_window[!duplicated(nlsy_application$id)])
#>
#> 0 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002
#> 2483 209 155 113 103 168