Exercise dataset for Chapter 10, Exercise 10.4. Randomly assigned council seat reservations for women in Mumbai, and turnout in the following election.
Format
A data frame with 227 rows and 4 columns:
- controltreat
Ward reserved for a woman candidate, with 109 missing values
- genderofwinner
Winning candidate is a woman
- turnout
Turnout percentage in 2002
- turnout97
Turnout percentage in 1997, with 54 missing values
Source
Bhavnani, R. R. (2009). Do Electoral Quotas Work after They Are
Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India. American Political
Science Review, 103(1), 23-35. ISPS Data Archive study D081
doi:10.60600/YU/VUH8KD
, file 42369 (Bhavnani_APSR_2009). Built by
data-raw/exercise_datasets.R.