a_db_alumni | R Documentation |
Dataset from Battaglini, Patacchini (2018)
data("a_db_alumni")
an object of class data.frame
with 2176 rows and 48 columns
unique congressman id.
PAC contributions to a member of Congress (in US dollars).
dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman did not graduate from the same institution within eight years with any other congressman.
list of school dummies. Each one refers to a different school. The dummy takes value one if the congressman attended the given school.
dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman attended any other school not previously listed.
dummy variable taking value 1 if the congressman is a Democrat, and 0 if the congressman is a Republican.
dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman is female.
dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman is a chair of at least one committee.
number of consecutive years in the House of Representatives.
dummy variable taking value of 1 if the election margin of victory is less than 5%.
distance to the center in terms of ideology measured using the absolute value of the first dimension of the dw-nominate score created by McCarty et al. (1997).
dummy variable taking value of 1 if the member of Congress is a member of the party holding the majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.
dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman is member of a powerful committee (Appropriations, Budget, Rules and Ways and Means).
categorical variable. It takes 1 if the record refers to the 109th congress, 2 if the record refers to the 110th congress, 3 if the record refers to the 111th congress, 4 if the record refers to the 112th congress, 5 if the record refers to the 113th congress.
for each congressman i, the value is equal to the inverse of the variance of PAC contributions received by all congressmen in i's State of election.
Battaglini M., E. Patacchini (2018), "Influencing Connected Legislators", Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
McCarty, N. M., K. T. Poole, and H. Rosenthal (1997), "Income redistribution and the realignment of American politics", AEIpress.
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