MPs: British Parliament Personal Wealth Data
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MPs	R Documentation

British Parliament Personal Wealth Data

Data set used in experiment to analyze the causal effect of being elected to Parliament in the United Kingdom on one's personal wealth.

MPs

A data frame with 427 rows and 10 variables:

surname: character: surname of the candidate
firstname: character: first name of the candidate
party: character: party of the candidate (labour or tory)
ln.gross: numeric: log gross wealth at the time of death
ln.net: numeric: log net wealth at the time of death
yob: integer: year of birth of the candidate
yod: integer: year of death of the candidate
margin.pre: numeric: margin of the candidate’s party in the previous election
region: character: electoral region
margin: numeric: margin of victory (vote share)

See QSS Table 4.8.

Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.
Andrew C. Eggers and Jens Hainmueller (2009) “MPs for sale? Returns to office in postwar British politics.” American Political Science Review, vol. 103, no. 4, pp. 513–533. doi = 10.1017/S0003055409990190

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