Replication Data for: How Legislators Respond To Localized Economic Shocks: Evidence From Chinese Import Competition (doi:10.7910/DVN/PAKFM8)

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Replication Data for: How Legislators Respond To Localized Economic Shocks: Evidence From Chinese Import Competition

doi:10.7910/DVN/PAKFM8

Harvard Dataverse

2015-04-30

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Feigenbaum, James; Hall, Andrew, 2015, "Replication Data for: How Legislators Respond To Localized Economic Shocks: Evidence From Chinese Import Competition", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PAKFM8, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:LusURNtBf4MM9H+USgUvpg== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: How Legislators Respond To Localized Economic Shocks: Evidence From Chinese Import Competition

doi:10.7910/DVN/PAKFM8

Feigenbaum, James (Harvard University)

Hall, Andrew (Stanford University)

Harvard Dataverse

Feigenbaum, James

Feigenbaum, James

2015-04-30

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PAKFM8

Social Sciences, congress, roll-call voting, trade policy, representation, elections

We explore the effects of localized economic shocks from trade on roll-call behavior and electoral outcomes in the U.S. House, 1990--2010. We demonstrate that economic shocks from Chinese import competition---first studied by Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013)---cause legislators to vote in the more protectionist direction on trade bills but cause no change in their voting on all other bills. At the same time, these shocks have no effect on the reelection rates of incumbents, the probability an incumbent faces a primary challenge, or the partisan control of the district. Though changes in economic conditions are likely to cause electoral turnover in many cases, incumbents exposed to negative economic shocks from trade appear able to fend off these effects in equilibrium by taking strategic positions on foreign-trade bills. In line with this view, we find that the effect on roll-call voting is strongest in districts where incumbents are most threatened, electorally. Taken together, these results paint a picture of responsive incumbents who tailor their roll-call positions on trade bills to the economic conditions in their districts.

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• No. of variables per record: 31

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• state
• dist - cong district
• decade
• congruence - (mean) cov2dc
• close - (mean) close
• open_seat - (mean) open_seat
• uncontested - (mean) uncontested
• age - (mean) age
• freshman - (mean) freshman
• tenure - (mean) tenure
• majparty - (mean) majparty
• powercom - (mean) powercom
• chair - (mean) chair
• rankmem - (mean) rankmem
• pct_urban - (mean) pct_urban
• urb2 - (mean) urb2
• urb3 - (mean) urb3
• urb4 - (mean) urb4
• urb5 - (mean) urb5
• ldensity - (mean) ldensity
• ld2 - (mean) ld2
• ld3 - (mean) ld3
• ld4 - (mean) ld4
• ld5 - (mean) ld5
• cd_per_city - (mean) cd_per_city
• lmed_income - (mean) lmed_income
• pct_old - (mean) pct_old
• pct_military - (mean) pct_military
• pct_farmer - (mean) pct_farmer
• pct_foreign - (mean) pct_foreign
• pct_bluecol - (mean) pct_bluecol
• state - State Abbreviation
• dist - Congressional District
• decade - Decade, 1 = 1990s, 2 = 2000s
• x - Change in IPW_us (endogenous regressor)
• z - Change in IPW_other (instrument)
• tradescore - Trade Score, CVP method
• nontradescore - Non-Trade Score, CVP method
• pro_ft_barrier - Cato Score, barrier bills
• pro_ft_sub - Cato Score, subsidy bills
• trade_deviation - Trade Score - Non-Trade Score
• dem_share - Share of years district was represented by Democrats
• contested - Share of District Elections with Contested Primaries
• serious_chall - Share of District Elections with Serious Primaries
• inc_share - Average Incumbent Vote Share
• inc_win - Incumbent Win Pct
• always_same_inc - District Had Same Incumbent Throughout Decade
• dem_normal_vote - Democratic Share in 1992 or 2002 House Election
• safe_dem_dist - Dem Normal Vote >= .6
• safe_repub_dist - Dem Normal Vote <= .4
• competitive_dist - Dem Normal Vote >= .4 & <= .6
• state_cluster - group(state decade)

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Summary Statistics: Valid 870.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.2896551724137932; StDev 0.45386322358305187; Max. 1.0

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Summary Statistics: Max. 0.3109603524208069; Mean 0.12491659792247174; Min. 0.04116681218147278; Valid 870.0; StDev 0.03278817029410509;

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.012997350954912086; Max. 0.14612936973571777; Valid 870.0; Min. 7.431230915244669E-5; Mean 0.006124480221562369

Variable Format: numeric

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f2671196 Location:

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Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0021930874790996313; StDev 0.10602883580547105; Mean 0.09488901844296367; Valid 870.0; Max. 0.5851513147354126

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Summary Statistics: Max. 2.0; Valid 870.0; Min. 1.0; StDev 0.5002876042803257; Mean 1.5

Variable Format: numeric

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f2671203 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 862.0; StDev 1.4048983995546482; Max. 13.29520320892334; Mean 1.9031609830958662; Min. 0.15736012160778046

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Summary Statistics: Min. 0.08615294843912125; Valid 862.0; Mean 1.8205369301140308; Max. 10.726591110229492; StDev 1.3377981587532581

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Summary Statistics: Valid 862.0; Mean -6.092948166510889; StDev 22.104411198363554; Max. 28.358211517333984; Min. -50.76844024658203

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Summary Statistics: Valid 862.0; Min. -18.03335189819336; Max. 23.099998474121094; StDev 12.545474051259328; Mean 1.1881307719271075

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Summary Statistics: Min. 16.666667938232422; Mean 59.45536291516297; Valid 862.0; Max. 94.73684692382812; StDev 18.33082269817933

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Summary Statistics: StDev 18.049834694963682; Valid 862.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 90.90909576416016; Mean 40.83067643393497

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Min. -44.08506774902344; Valid 862.0; StDev 12.350958493095618; Mean -7.281078941445889; Max. 16.868555068969727;

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.5021544599477762; StDev 0.4563754535666038; Valid 862.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; StDev 0.2366222650606692; Min. 0.0; Valid 862.0; Mean 0.5716624236870947

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Summary Statistics: Valid 870.0; StDev 0.19511303701432675; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.10256705121404801; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Valid 870.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.11833773646362078; Mean 0.702829887435354; Min. 0.47093209624290466;

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:/wHlTnHrVVzKA1/Y4XRwYg==

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.6632183908045974; Valid 870.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4728813674629321; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Valid 870.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.2198538736636215; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.5191524154538737

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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