Data from "How do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-Century GI Bills"

Description

The mortgages data contains data from Fetter (2015) on home ownership rates by men, focusing on whether they were born at the right time to be eligible for mortgage subsidies based on their military service.

Usage

mortgages

Format

A data frame with 214144 rows and 6 variables

bpl

Birth State

qob

Quarter of birth

nonwhite

White/nonwhite race indicator. 1 = Nonwhite

vet_wwko

Veteran of either the Korean war or World War II

home_ownership

Owns a home

qob_minus_kw

Quarter of birth centered on eligibility for mortgage subsidy (0+ = eligible)

Details

This data is used in the Regression Discontinuity chapter of The Effect.

Source

Fetter, D.K., 2013. How do mortgage subsidies affect home ownership? Evidence from the mid-century GI bills. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5(2), pp.111-47.

References

Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.