Social Pressure Experiment Data

Dataset used to study the effect of social pressure on voter turnout.

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Format

A data frame with 305866 rows and 6 variables:

sex

character: sex of the voter (female or male)

yearofbirth

integer: year of birth of the voter

primary2004

integer: whether the voter voted in the 2004 primary election (1=voted, 0=abstained)

messages

character: GOTV messages the voter received (Civic Duty, Control, Neighbors, Hawthorne)

primary2006

integer: whether the voter turned out in the 2006 primary election (1=voted, 0=abstained)

hhsize

integer: household size of the voter

Details

See QSS Table 2.4.

References

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

• Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, and Christopher W. Larimer (2008) “Social pressure and voter turnout: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment.” American Political Science Review, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 33–48. doi: 10.1017/S000305540808009X