Angrist Data Archive

Angrist (1990)

Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records

Notes: The programs and data sets available here will produce the results in tables 1 through 4, as well as figure 3. The code for tables 1, 3, and 4 also contain a correction that affects standard errors. Correcting this error reduces the standard errors somewhat relative to those published. Uncommenting the correction as indicated in the programs reproduces the published results. There is also a very minor discrepancy in Table 3, probably due to the use of a different CPI than was used for the published paper. The figures in the original paper were not typeset in the proper order. Here is the published correction.

Programs: Click the links to download the program files:

Angrist1990_Table1.do generates Table 1
mysipp2.do generates the SIPP(84) panel of Table 2
Angrist1990_Table2DMDC.do generates the DMDC/CWHS panel of Table 2 for 1951-1953 cohorts
Angrist1990_Table3.do generates Table 3
Angrist1990_Table4.do generates Table 4
Angrist1990_Fig3.do creates Figure 3

Data: Click the links to download the data sets:

cwhsa.dta is used by Angrist1990_Table1.do to create Table 1 and Angrist1990_Table2DMDC.do to create part of Table 2
cwhsb.dta is used by Angrist1990_Table1.do to create Table 1
sipp2.dta is used by mysipp2.do to generate the SIPP(84) panel of Table 2
dmdcdat.dta is used by Angrist1990_Table2DMDC.do to create part of Table 2
cpi_angrist1990.dta is used by Angrist1990_Table3.do to obtain current dollar values from real values contained on cwhsc_new.dta
cwhsc_new.dta is used by Angrist1990_Table3.do to create Table 3 and Angrist1990_Table4.do to create Table 4
Draft_Lottery_Numbers.xls contains draft lottery numbers by birthdate for the 1969-1972 lotteries