voters: Voting Contagion Experiment Data

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Voting Contagion Experiment Data

Description

A dataset of a voting contagion experiment. See Nickerson (2008) for more details. The variables used in the package vignette are documented here.

Format

a dataset with 21 variables and 7722 rows

family

household ID

denver

1 = subject in Denver, 0 = Minneapolis

treatment

1 = voting encouragement, 2 = recycling message, 3 = not contacted

reached

1 = subject answered door, 0 = not

hsecontact

1 = household contacted by canvassers, 0 = not

voted02p

1 = voted in '02 primary, 0 = not

party

party affiliation

age

age

gender

gender

References

Nickerson, D. W. (2008). Is voting contagious? Evidence from two field experiments. American Political Science Review, 102(01), 49-57. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1017/S0003055408080039")}

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