Data

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("itamarcaspi/experimentdatar")

Usage

Load the experimentdatar package

library(experimentdatar)

Load the social dataset

data(social)  

(You can find information about variable definitions using ?social.)

Use dataDetails() function to open the paper associated with the social dataset

dataDetails("social")

Load the dplyr and display the response (outcome_vote) and treatment variable (treat_neighbors)

library(dplyr) # for data manipulations

social %>% 
  select(outcome_voted, treat_neighbors) %>% 
  head()

## # A tibble: 6 x 2
##   outcome_voted treat_neighbors
##           <int>           <int>
## 1             0               0
## 2             1               0
## 3             1               0
## 4             0               0
## 5             0               0
## 6             0               0

Use ggplot2 to plot the distribution of the median income of survey participants

library(ggplot2) # for generating plots

social %>% 
  ggplot(aes(median_age)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 1)

List of available datasets

• charitable: Data used for the paper “Does Price matter in charitable giving? Evidence from a large-Scale Natural Field experiment”
  by Karlan and List (2007).

• IVdataset: Data used for the paper “Does compulsory school attendance affect schooling and earnings?”
  by Angrist and Krueger (1991) and related papers.

• mobilization: Data for the paper “Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods Using a Large-Scale Voter Mobilization Experiment”
  by Arceneaux, Gerber, and Green (2006).

• vouchers: Data for the paper “Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment”
  by Angrist, Bettinger, Bloom, King, and Kremer (2002).

• secrecy: Data for the paper “Ballot Secrecy Concerns and Voter Mobilization: New Experimental Evidence about Message Source, Context, and the Duration of Mobilization Effects”
  by Gerber, Hubers, Biggers, and Hendry (2014).

• social: Data for the paper “Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment”
  by Gerber, Green, and Larimer (2008).

• welfare: Data for the paper “Modeling heterogeneous treatment effects in survey experiments with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees”
  by Green and Kern (2012).

Resources

• The ExperimentData repository where you can find the original as well as new datasets and more documentations.