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.

data('ezanders')

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

Examples

 str(ezanders)
#> 'data.frame':	108 obs. of  25 variables:
#>  $ month : chr  "JAN" "FEB" "MAR" "APR" ...
#>  $ uclms : int  18369 17661 16340 16268 19340 19471 16909 14820 10274 6740 ...
#>  $ ez    : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ year  : int  1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 ...
#>  $ y81   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ y82   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ y83   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ y84   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ y85   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ y86   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ y87   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ y88   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ luclms: num  9.82 9.78 9.7 9.7 9.87 ...
#>  $ jan   : int  1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ feb   : int  0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ mar   : int  0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ apr   : int  0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ may   : int  0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ jun   : int  0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ jul   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ aug   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 ...
#>  $ sep   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ...
#>  $ oct   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ...
#>  $ nov   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ dec   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  - attr(*, "time.stamp")= chr "25 Jun 2011 23:03"