audit

Wooldridge Source: These data come from a 1988 Urban Institute audit study in the Washington, D.C. area. I obtained them from the article “The Urban Institute Audit Studies: Their Methods and Findings,” by James J. Heckman and Peter Siegelman. In Fix, M. and Struyk, R., eds., Clear and Convincing Evidence: Measurement of Discrimination in America. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1993, 187-258. Data loads lazily.

data('audit')

Format

A data.frame with 241 observations on 3 variables:

• w: =1 if white app. got job offer

• b: =1 if black app. got job offer

• y: b - w

Source

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

Used in Text

pages 776-777, 784, 787

Examples

 str(audit)
#> 'data.frame':	241 obs. of  3 variables:
#>  $ w: int  1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ b: int  1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ y: int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  - attr(*, "time.stamp")= chr "25 Jun 2011 23:03"