Dataset from Battaglini, Patacchini (2018)
Format
Data set for runtime executions. An object of class data.frame with 42 rows and 48 columns
- id: unique congressman id.
- PAC: PAC contributions to a member of Congress (in US dollars).
- isolate: dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman did not graduate from the same institution within eight years with any other congressman.
- S1-S65: list of school dummies. Each one refers to a different school. The dummy takes value one if the congressman attended the given school.
- S_other: dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman attended any other school not previously listed.
- party: dummy variable taking value 1 if the congressman is a Democrat, and 0 if the congressman is a Republican.
- gender: dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman is female.
- nchair: dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman is a chair of at least one committee.
- sen: number of consecutive years in the House of Representatives.
- margin_b: dummy variable taking value of 1 if the election margin of victory is less than 5%.
- dw: distance to the center in terms of ideology measured using the absolute value of the first dimension of the dw-nominate score created by McCarty et al. (1997).
- majority: dummy variable taking value of 1 if the member of Congress is a member of the party holding the majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.
- relcom: dummy variable taking value of 1 if the congressman is member of a powerful committee (Appropriations, Budget, Rules and Ways and Means).
- time: categorical variable. It takes 1 if the record refers to the 109th congress, 2 if the record refers to the 110th congress, 3 if the record refers to the 111th congress, 4 if the record refers to the 112th congress, 5 if the record refers to the 113th congress.
- weights: for each congressman i, the value is equal to the inverse of the variance of PAC contributions received by all congressmen in i's State of election.
data("db_alumni_test")