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Carolina Abecedarian Project and the Carolina Approach to Responsive Education (CARE), 1972-1992

CARE.Rd

A dataset containing a subset of children from the CARE trial on early childhood intervention. The randomized controlled trial was subsetted to mimic a regression-discontinuity design in which treatment was assigned only to mothers whose IQ was smaller than 85.

Usage

CARE

Format

A data frame with 81 rows and 5 variables:

SUBJECT

Unique ID variable

DC_TRT

Day Care (Preschool) Treatment Group, 1 = Treatment, 0 = Control

APGAR5

APGAR ("Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration") score at 5 minutes after birth

MOMWAIS0

Biological mother's WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) full-scale score at subject's birth

SBIQ48

Subject's Stanford Binet IQ score at 48 months

Source

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/4091

Examples

data("CARE")
head(CARE)
#>   SUBJECT DC_TRT APGAR5 MOMWAIS0 SBIQ48
#> 1    5102      0      9       97     92
#> 2    5107      0      9       97     88
#> 3    5109      0     10      110    108
#> 4    5111      0      9       96    114
#> 5    5114      0      9       87     98
#> 6    5115      0     10       87     68