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Wooldridge Source: See VOTE1.RAW Data loads lazily.
data('vote2')
A data.frame with 186 observations on 26 variables:
state: state postal code
district: U.S. Congressional district
democ: =1 if incumbent democrat
vote90: inc. share two-party vote, 1990
vote88: inc. share two-party vote, 1988
inexp90: inc. camp. expends., 1990
chexp90: chl. camp. expends., 1990
inexp88: inc. camp. expends., 1988
chexp88: chl. camp. expends., 1988
prtystr: percent vote pres., same party, 1988
rptchall: =1 if a repeat challenger
tenure: years in H.R.
lawyer: =1 if law degree
linexp90: log(inexp90)
lchexp90: log(chexp90)
linexp88: log(inexp88)
lchexp88: log(chexp88)
incshr90: 100*(inexp90/(inexp90+chexp90))
incshr88: 100*(inexp88/(inexp88+chexp88))
cvote: vote90 - vote88
clinexp: linexp90 - linexp88
clchexp: lchexp90 - lchexp88
cincshr: incshr90 - incshr88
win88: =1 by definition
win90: =1 if inc. wins, 1990
cwin: win90 - win88
These are panel data, at the Congressional district level, collected for the 1988 and 1990 U.S. House of Representative elections. Of course, much more recent data are available, possibly even in electronic form.
Used in Text: pages 335-336, 478, 699
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str(vote2)