Replication Data for: Access to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America (doi:10.7910/DVN/DCOT4D)

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Replication Data for: Access to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America

doi:10.7910/DVN/DCOT4D

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2024-10-25

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Cox, Christian; Epp, Derek A.; Shepherd, Michael E., 2024, "Replication Data for: Access to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DCOT4D, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Replication Data for: Access to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America

doi:10.7910/DVN/DCOT4D

Cox, Christian (The University of Arizona)

Epp, Derek A. (University of Texas at Austin)

Shepherd, Michael E. (The University of Texas at Austin)

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Epp, Derek

Epp, Derek

2024-05-29

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DCOT4D

Social Sciences, Hospitals, Healthcare, Turnout, Rural Politics, Hardship

We investigate how hardships affect rural politics, considering the case of hospital closures. In the last two decades, more than 200 rural hospitals have closed their doors or drastically reduced their services. Drawing from resource models of voting, our hypothesis is that personal- and community-level deprivations brought about by hospital closures should reduce election turnout. Empirical tests pair geographic information on the location of open and closed hospitals with data from state voter files to create a panel of over 10 million rural residents for the 2016, 2018, and 2020 national elections. Results show that individuals whose nearest hospital closed prior to the proximate election were less likely to vote than their unaffected counterparts. These effects are strongest for older and lower-income residents, but they decay over time so that voting likelihood resembles a pre-closure baseline within 12 months.

<strong>APSR Data Editors' Note:</strong> APSR Data Editors have reviewed included documentation for completeness. Since the data used cannot be publicly shared, the reproducibility of findings in the article was not assessed. Data editors have verified that the included code specifies all figures and tables in the article and should allow those with access to the data to reproduce all results. Data editors do not review results presented in appendices or supplementary materials.

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COX, CHRISTIAN, DEREK A. EPP, and MICHAEL E. SHEPHERD. 2024. “Access to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America.” American Political Science Review: 1–12.

10.1017/S0003055424001035

COX, CHRISTIAN, DEREK A. EPP, and MICHAEL E. SHEPHERD. 2024. “Access to Healthcare and Voting: The Case of Hospital Closures in Rural America.” American Political Science Review: 1–12.

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IRB exemption

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Sheps _ closed hospitals.csv

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A list of closed hospitals (from Sheps Center at UNC - Chapel Hill)

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A list of open hospitals (from Sheps Center at UNC - Chapel Hill)

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Supplemental appendices for Access to Healthcare and Voting

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