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:

Source

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

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"