GerberGreenImai {Matching} | R Documentation |
This is the dataset used by Imai (forthcoming) to replicate and evaluate the field experiment done by Gerber and Green (2000). The accompanying example code provides a model with good balance which estimates the causal effect of get-out-the-vote telephone calls on turnout.
data(GerberGreenImai)
A data frame with 10829 observations on the following 26 variables.
The demo provided, entitled GerberGreenImai
, estimates the
causal effect of get-out-the-vote telephone calls on turnout. The
balancing model achieves exact balance on all covariates except
for age. And for age, balance is very good. This model estimates the
causal effect of get-out-the-vote telephone calls on turnout to be not
significantly different from zero.
Gerber, Alan S. and Donald P. Green. 2000. ``The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment.'' American Political Science Review 94: 653-663.
Imai, Kosuke. forthcoming. ``Do Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout? The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Experiments.'' American Political Science Review.
Also see Match
and MatchBalance
,
GenMatch
, balanceMV
,
balanceUV
, ks.boot
lalonde