voters: Voting Contagion Experiment Data

In bsaul/inferference: Methods for Causal Inference with Interference

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

• familyhousehold ID

• denver1 = subject in Denver, 0 = Minneapolis

• treatment1 = voting encouragement, 2 = recycling message, 3 = not contacted

• reached1 = subject answered door, 0 = not

• hsecontact1 = household contacted by canvassers, 0 = not

• voted02p1 = voted in '02 primary, 0 = not

• partyparty affiliation

• ageage

• gendergender

References

Nickerson, D. W. (2008). Is voting contagious? Evidence from two field experiments. American Political Science Review, 102(01), 49-57. doi: 10.1017/S0003055408080039

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