fair4: Fair4 Data

In ccolonescu/PoEdata: PoE data for R

Description

Obs: 33

Usage

data("fair4")

Format

A data frame with 33 observations on the following 9 variables.

year

year

vote

Incumbent share of the two-party presidential vote

party

= 1 if Democratic incumbent at election time; -1 if a Republican incumbent

person

= 1 if incumbent is running for election and 0 otherwise

duration

number of terms incumbent administration in power

war

= 1 for elections of 1920, 1944, and 1948 and 0 otherwise.

growth

growth rate GDP in first three quarters of the election year

inflation

inflation rate in first 15 quarters of admin, 0 for 1920, 1944, 1948

goodnews

number of quarters in first 15 with real GDP per capita growth > 3.2

Source

http://principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/poe4.htm

References

http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/vote2008/index2.htm

Examples

data(fair4)
## maybe str(fair4) ; plot(fair4) ...

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