Data from an experiment that analyzed whether contact with a gay canvasser affected opinions on gay marriage.

gay

Format

A data frame with 69592 rows and 4 variables:

study

integer: source of the data (1 = study 1, 2 = study 2)

treatment

character: five possible treatment assignment options

wave

integer: survey wave (a total of seven waves)

ssm

integer: five-point scale on same-sex marriage, higher scores indicate support

Details

See QSS Table 2.7.

References

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

  • Michael J. LaCour and Donald P. Green (2015) “When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality.” Science, vol. 346, no. 6215, pp. 1366–1369. doi: 10.1126/science.1256151