Description

Wooldridge Source: L.E. Papke (1994), “Tax Policy and Urban Development: Evidence from the Indiana Enterprise Zone Program,” Journal of Public Economics 54, 37-49. Professor Papke kindly provided these data. Data loads lazily.

Usage

Format

A data.frame with 108 observations on 25 variables:

• month: name of month

• uclms: unemployment claims

• ez: =1 if enterprise zone

• year: 1980 through 1988

• y81: =1 if year == 1981

• y82:

• y83:

• y84:

• y85:

• y86:

• y87:

• y88:

• luclms: log(uclms)

• jan: =1 if month == JAN

• feb:

• mar:

• apr:

• may:

• jun:

• jul:

• aug:

• sep:

• oct:

• nov:

• dec:

Notes

These are actually monthly unemployment claims for the Anderson enterprise zone. Papke used annualized data, across many zones and non-zones, in her original analysis.

Used in Text: page 377

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

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