Data set from experiment which seeks to estimate the electoral impact of Progresa, Mexico’s conditional cash transfer program (CCT program).
progresa
A data frame with 417 rows and 20 variables:
integer: whether an electoral precinct contains a village where households received early Progresa
numeric: PRI votes in the 2000 election as a share of precinct population above 18
numeric: official PRI vote share in the 2000 election
numeric: turnout in the 2000 election as a share of precinct population above 18
numeric: official turnout in the 2000 election
integer: total PRI votes in the 1994 presidential election
integer: total PAN votes in the 1994 presidential election
integer: total PRD votes in the 1994 presidential election
numeric: total PRI votes in the 1994 election as a share of precinct population above 18
numeric: official PRI vote share in the 1994 election
numeric: total PAN votes in the 1994 election as a share of precinct population above 18
numeric: official PAN vote share in the 1994 election
numeric: total PRD votes in the 1994 election as a share of precinct population above 18
numeric: official PRD vote share in the 1994 election
numeric: turnout in the 1994 election as a share of precinct population above 18
numeric: official turnout in the 1994 election
integer: total votes cast in the 1994 presidential election
numeric: precinct average of village poverty index
integer: total population in the precinct
integer: number of villages in the precinct
See QSS Table 4.11.
Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.
Ana de la O (2013) “Do conditional cash transfers affect voting behavior? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico.” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 1–14 doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2012.00617.x
Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Carlos Velasco (2015) “Do nonpartisan programmatic policies have partisan electoral effects? Evidence from two large scale randomized experiments.”