Data from "Government Transfers and Political Support" for Density Tests

Description

The gov_transfers_density data contains data from Manacorda, Miguel, and Vigorito (2011) on government transfer program that was administered based on an income cutoff. As opposed to the gov_transfers data set, this data set only contains income information, but has a wider range of it, for use with density discontinuity tests.

Usage

gov_transfers_density

Format

A data frame with 52549 rows and 1 variable:

Income_Centered

Income measure, centered around program cutoff (negative value = eligible)

Details

This data is used in the Regression Discontinuity chapter of The Effect.

Source

Manacorda, M., Miguel, E. and Vigorito, A., 2011. Government transfers and political support. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(3), pp.1-28.

References

Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.