Lottery and Labor Earnings Dataset

Guido W. Imbens, Donald B. Rubin, and Bruce I. Sacerdote. “Estimating the Effect of Unearned Income on Labor Earnings, Savings, and Consumption: Evidence from a Survey of Lottery Players.” American Economic Review, 91(4), pages 778–794, 2001.

Data provided by Guido Imbens to Yiqing Xu and hosted at https://github.com/xuyiqing/lalonde

Downloaded, cleaned, and documented by Vincent Arel-Bundock on 2025-01-29.

Variable	Description
age	Age at win time.
college	At least 16 years or education.
education	Years of education.
man	Gender (1 = man, 0 = woman).
prize	Yearly prize installment in USD.
tickets	Number of lottery tickets purchased.
win	Won a lottery prize (1 = yes, 0 = no).
win_big	Won a large prize (1 = yes, 0 = no).
win_small	Won a small prize (1 = yes, 0 = no).
work	Employed at lottery win time.
year	Lottery win year.
earnings_pre_avg	Average earnings at t-6 to t-1.
earnings_post_avg	Average earnings at t+1 to t+7.
earnings_pre_1	Earnings at t-1.
earnings_pre_2	Earnings at t-2.
earnings_pre_3	Earnings at t-3.
earnings_pre_4	Earnings at t-4.
earnings_pre_5	Earnings at t-5.
earnings_pre_6	Earnings at t-6.
earnings_post_1	Earnings at t+1.
earnings_post_2	Earnings at t+2.
earnings_post_3	Earnings at t+3.
earnings_post_4	Earnings at t+4.
earnings_post_5	Earnings at t+5.
earnings_post_6	Earnings at t+6.
earnings_post_7	Earnings at t+7.