GerberGreen: Data from the 1998 New Haven Get-Out-the-Vote Experiment

Description

This data set contains the full and most recent corrected data from the field experiment analyzed in Gerber and Green (2000).

Usage

LaLonde

Arguments

format

A data frame consisting of 23 columns and 29,380 observations.

source

A data set with columns: persons: Number persons in household

ward: Ward of residence

question: Asked to commit to voting

mailgrp: Sent mail

phonegrp: Phone batch 1

persngrp: Personal contact attempted

appeal: Content of message

1: Civic Duty 2: Neighborhood Solidarity 3: Close Election

contact: Personal contact occurred

mailings: Number of mailings sent

age: Age of respondent

majorpty: Democratic or Republican

vote96.0: Abstained in 1996

vote96.1: Voted in 1996

mailcall: Phone batch 2

voted98: Voted in 1998

phnscrpt: Script read to phone respondents

1: Civic-Blood

2: Civic

3: Civic or Blood-Civic

4: Neighbor

5: Neighbor or Civic-Neighbor

6: Close

dis.mc: Contacted by phone in batch 2

dis.phn: Contacted by phone in batch 1

phn.c: Contacted by phone

phntrt1: Phone contact attempted (no blood or blood-civic)

phntrt2: Phone contact attempted (no blood)

phn.c1: Contact occurred in phntrt1

phn.c2: Contact occurred in phntrt2

Note: Descriptions come from the description of dataset GerberGreenImai in package Matching.

References

Gerber, A. S. and Green, D. P. (2000). The effects of canvassing, telephone calls, and direct mail on voter turnout: A field experiment. American Political Science Review 94, 3, 653-663.

Imai, K. (2005). Do get-out-the-vote calls reduce turnout?: The importance of statistical methods for field experiments. American Political Science Review 99, 2, 283-300.