lee2008 {RATest}

Data set used in Lee (2008)

Description

Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections

Format

A data frame with 6558 observations and two variables:

demsharenext

Democrat vote share election t+1

difdemshare

Running variable. Diff. democratic share

demshareprev

Democrat vote share t-1

demwinprev

Democrat win t-1

demofficeexp

Democrat political experience t

othofficeexp

Oppositions political experience t

demelectexp

Democrat electoral experience t

othelectexp

Oposition electoral experience t

Source

Mostly Harmless Econometrics Data Archive: https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/josh-angrist/mhe-data-archive

References

Lee, D. (2008) Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections, Journal of Econometrics, 142, 675-697