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The data set (n=507) contains findings from the experiment described in Albertson and Lawrence (2009)
in which a representative sample of survey respondents in Orange County, California, were randomly
assigned to receive encouragement to view a Fox debate on affirmative action, which would take
place on the eve of the 1996 presidential election. Shortly after the election, these respondents were
reinterviewed. The postelection questionnaire asked respondents whether they viewed the debate,
whether they supported a California proposition (209) to eliminate affirmative action (support
),
and how informed they felt about the proposition (infopro
). The dataset can be used to reproduce
Table 2 in Aronow and Carnegie (2013). Note that mean imputation was used to handle missing data so
non-integer values are imputed. support
and infopro
are excepted and include missing values.
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A data frame with 507 observations on the following 11 variables:
partyid
An 11 point scale from “strong Republican” to “strong Democrat”.
pnintst
Respondent interest in politics and national affairs. Coded 1 = "very interested", 2 = "somewhat interested", 3 = "only slightly interested", 4 = "not interested at all".
watchnat
Frequency of national television news consumption. Coded 1 = "never"", 2 = "less than once a month"", 3 = "once a month", 4 = "several times a month", 5 = "once a week", 6 = "several times a week", 7 = "every day".
educad
Education level of respondent. Coded 1 = "eighth grade or less", 2 = "beyond eighth grade, not high school", 3 = "ged", 4 = "high school", 5 = "less than one year vocational school", 6 = "one to two year vocational school", 7 = "two years or more vocational school", 8 = "less than two years of college", 9 = "two or more years of college", 10 = "finished a two-year college program", 11 = "finished a four-year college program", 12 = "master degree or equivalent", 13 = "ph.d., m.d., or other advance degree".
readnews
How often respondent reads political news. Coded 1 = "never"", 2 = "less than once a month"", 3 = "once a month", 4 = "several times a month", 5 = "once a week", 6 = "several times a week", 7 = "every day".
gender
Respondent gender. Coded 1 for female and 0 for male.
income
Family income from all sources. Coded 1 = "under $10,000", 2 = "between $10,000 and $20,000", 3 = "between $20,000 and $30,000", 4 = "between $30,000 and $40,000", 5 = "between $40,000 and $50,000", 6 = "between $50,000 and $60,000", 7 = "between $60,000 and $70,000", 8 = "between $70,000 and $80,000", 9 = "between $80,000 and $90,000", 10 = "between $90,000 and $100,000", 11 = "$100,000 or more".
white
Binary indicator coded 1 if subject is white and 0 otherwise.
support
Support for Proposition 209. Coded 1 if subject voted against or opposed and 0 if subject voted for or favored
infopro
Information on Proposition 209. Coded from 1 to 4, with 4 meaning respondents had a great deal of information about Proposition 209 prior to the election, and 1 meaning respondents reported no information about the proposition before the election.
watchpro
Binary indicator coded 1 if subject watched the Fox Debate about affirmative action and 0 otherwise. This is the outcome ("treatment") of interest.
conditn
Binary indicator coded 1 if subject was (randomly) prompted to watch the Fox Debate about affirmative action. This is the encouragement (instrumental) variable.
Bethany Albertson and Adria Lawrence. (2009). After the credits roll: The long-term effects of educational television on public knowledge and attitudes. American Politics Research. 37(2): 275-300.
Peter M. Aronow and Allison Carnegie. (2013). Beyond LATE: Estimation of the average treatment effect with an instrumental variable. Political Analysis. 21.4 (2013): 492-506.
Peter M. Aronow and Allison Carnegie. (2013). Replication data for: Beyond LATE: Estimation of the average treatment effect with an instrumental variable. Dataverse Network. http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/21729 (accessed May 14, 2015).
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