Data & Code for Dahl & Lochner (2012, 2017)

Programs and datasets to create tables for “The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit” (with Gordon B. Dahl), American Economic Review, Vol. 102, No. 5, pp. 1927-1956, August 2012.

All files have been updated to correct for the coding error described in 

• Dahl, Gordon and Lance Lochner, “The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Reply,” American Economic Review, 107(2), 2017: 629-631.

• Dahl, Gordon and Lance Lochner, Correction and Addendum to 'The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit', March 2016.

Stata Programs:

• main-updated.do

• taxsim-eitc-updated.do

• merge-school-welfare.do

• makevars-updated.do

• regressions-updated.do

Data Sets:

• main-nostate.dta

• welfare_dat.csv