newhaven {factiv}

New Haven Voter Modelization Field Experiment

Description

A data set that contains a subset of the voter mobilzation field experiment analyzed in Gerber and Green (2000).

Format

A data frame with 7865 observations and 6 variables:

ward

ward of the residence.

turnout_98

indicator variable for voting in the 1998 general election.

inperson

indicator variable for if the respondent received in-person canvassing.

phone

indicator variable for if the respondent received phone canvassing.

inperson_rand

indicator variable for if the respondent was randomized to receive in-person canvassing.

phone_rand

indicator variable for if the respondent was randomized to receive phone canvassing.

age

respondent age.

maj_party

indicator variable for if the respondent is a registered Democrat or Republican.

turnout_96

indicator variable for whether or not the respondent voted in the 1996 general election.

Details

Data was cleaned and used in Bowers and Hansen (2009). It was a 2x2 factorial design with noncompliance on both factors. This is the subset of the subjects who lived in a single-person household and were not randomized to receive get-out-the-vote mailers. Blackwell (2017) analyzed the full data adjusting for noncompliance.

Source

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Q6CID7

References

Gerber, Alan S., and Donald P. Green. “The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment.” The American Political Science Review 94, no. 3 (2000): 653. https://doi.org/10.2307/2585837.

Hansen, Ben B., and Jake Bowers. “Attributing Effects to a Cluster-Randomized Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 104, no. 487 (2009): 873–85. https://doi.org/10.1198/jasa.2009.ap06589.

Blackwell, Matthew. “Instrumental Variable Methods for Conditional Effects and Causal Interaction in Voter Mobilization Experiments.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 112, no. 518 (2017): 590–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2016.1246363.