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Data on Political Advertisement and Campaign Contributions in US Presidential Elections

Description

A dataset containing 15 variables on the campaign contributions of 16,265 zip codes to the 2004 and 2008 US presidential elections in addition to the demographic characteristics of each area (Urban and Niebler 2014; Fong, Hazlett, and Imai 2018).

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 16,265 rows and 15 columns:

zip

zip code

treat

the log transformed TotAds

TotAds

the total number of political advertisements aired in the zip code

TotalPop

population size

PercentOver65

percent of the population over 65

Inc

median household income

PercentHispanic

percent Hispanic

PercentBlack

percent black

density

population density (people per sq mile)

per_collegegrads

percent college graduates

CanCommute

a dummy variable indicating whether it is possible to commute to the zip code from a competitive state

StFIPS

state FIPS code

Cont

campaign contributions (in thousands of dollars)

log_TotalPop

log population

log_Inc

log median income

References

Fong, Christian, Chad Hazlett, and Kosuke Imai. 2018. Covariate Balancing Propensity Score for a Continuous Treatment: Application to The Efficacy of Political Advertisements. The Annals of Applied Statistics 12(1):156-77.

Urban, Carly, and Sarah Niebler. 2014. Dollars on the Sidewalk: Should U.S. Presidential Candidates Advertise in Uncontested States? American Journal of Political Science 58(2):322-36.


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