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Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Kenneth Scheve; David Stasavage, 2011, "Comparative Inheritance Taxation Database", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/ZKGHPB, Yale Dataverse, V2
In this article we use an original data set to provide the first empirical analysis of the political economy of inherited wealth taxation that covers a significant number of countries and a long time frame (1816–2000). Our goal is to understand why, if inheritance taxes are often very old taxes, the implementation of inheritance tax rates significa... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Eric Brunner; Stephen L. Ross; Ebonya Washington, 2011, "Economics and Policy Preferences: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/F5NQ4A, Yale Dataverse, V2
Using California ballot proposition returns and exogenous shifts to labor demand, we provide the first large-scale causal evidence of the impact of economic conditions on policy preferences. Consistent with economic theory, we find that positive economic shocks decrease support for redistributive policies. More notably, we find evidence of a need f... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Daniel Butler; Emily Schofield, 2010, "Were Newspapers More Interested in pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence from a Field Experiment.", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/OAYRDW, Yale Dataverse, V2
During the 2008 presidential election, the authors submitted letters to the editor at 100 major U.S. newspapers as part of a field experiment to test whether interest in the letter depended on which candidate the letter supported. The authors find, contrary to what charges of a liberal media bias would suggest, that newspapers expressed more intere... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
David Broockman, 2010, "Do Congressional Candidates Have Reverse Coattails? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/IOEQKE, Yale Dataverse, V2
Although the presidential coattail effect has been an object of frequent study, the question of whether popular congressional candidates boost vote shares in return for their parties’ presidential candidates remains unexplored. This article investigates whether so-called "reverse coattails" exist using a regression discontinuity design with congres... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Donald P. Green; Alan S. Gerber; David W. Nickerson, 2010, "Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing Experiments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/B9TZNZ, Yale Dataverse, V2
Prior to the November 6, 2001 elections, randomized voter mobilization experiments were conducted in Bridgeport, Columbus, Detroit, Minneapolis, Raleigh, and St. Paul. Names appearing on official lists of registered voters were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. A few days before Election Day, the treatment group received a face-to-... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Donald P. Green; Terence Y. Leong; Holger Lutz Kern; Alan S. Gerber; Christopher W. Larimer, 2010, "Testing the Accuracy of Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Experimental Benchmarks", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/PRLGEC, Yale Dataverse, V2
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs enable researchers to estimate causal effects using observational data. These causal effects are identified at the point of discontinuity that distinguishes those observations that do or do not receive the treatment. One challenge in applying RD in practice is that data may be sparse in the immediate vicinity o... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Thad Dunning; Lauren Harrison, 2010, "Cross-cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting: An Experimental Study of Cousinage in Mali", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/WZPQR1, Yale Dataverse, V2
Social scientists often attribute moderation of the political salience of ethnicity in ethnically diverse societies to the presence of cross-cutting cleavages—that is, to dimensions of identity or interest along which members of the same ethnic group may have diverse allegiances. Yet, estimating the causal effects of cross-cutting cleavages is diff... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Alan S. Gerber; Gregory Huber, 2010, "Partisanship and Economic Behavior: Do Partisan Differences in Economic Forecasts Predict Real Economic Behavior?", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/YJ15W3, Yale Dataverse, V2
Survey data regularly show that assessments of current and expected future economic performance are more positive when a respondent's partisanship matches that of the President. To determine if this is a survey artifact or something deeper, we investigate whether partisanship is associated with behavioral differences in economic decisions. We const... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Gregory Huber; John S. Lapinski, 2010, "The “Race Card” Revisited: Assessing Racial Priming in Policy Contests", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/NF67IR, Yale Dataverse, V2
In The Race Card (2001), Mendelberg finds support for her theory that implicit racial appeals, but not explicit ones, prime racial resentment in opinion formation. She argues that citizens reject explicit appeals, rendering them ineffective, because they violate widespread egalitarian norms. Mendelberg’s innovative research, however, suffers from s... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Susan D. Hyde, 2010, "Experimenting in Democracy Promotion: International Observers and the 2004 Presidential Elections in Indonesia", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/KTZEDZ, Yale Dataverse, V2
Randomized field experiments have gained attention within the social sciences and the field of democracy promotion as an influential tool for causal inference and a potentially powerful method of impact evaluation. With an eye toward facilitating field experimentation in democracy promotion, I present the first field-experimental study of internati... |
