Replication Data for "What Good is a College Degree? Education and Leader Quality Reconsidered" (doi:10.7910/DVN/UE1JXM)

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Replication Data for "What Good is a College Degree? Education and Leader Quality Reconsidered"

doi:10.7910/DVN/UE1JXM

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2015-07-16

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Carnes, Nicholas; Lupu, Noam, 2015, "Replication Data for "What Good is a College Degree? Education and Leader Quality Reconsidered"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UE1JXM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:vcV6JJ8z8e+UbpGAf7Drgw== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for "What Good is a College Degree? Education and Leader Quality Reconsidered"

doi:10.7910/DVN/UE1JXM

Carnes, Nicholas (Duke University)

Lupu, Noam (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Harvard Dataverse

The Journal of Politics Dataverse

Lupu, Noam

Lupu, Noam

2015-06-27

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UE1JXM

Social Sciences

Do people with more formal education make better political leaders? In this paper, we analyze cross-national data on random leadership transitions, data on close elections in the US Congress, and data on randomly audited municipalities in Brazil. Across a wide range of outcomes, we consistently find that college-educated leaders perform about the same as or worse than leaders with less formal education. Politicians with college degrees do not tend to govern over more prosperous nations, do not pass more bills, do not tend to do better at the polls, and are no less likely to be corrupt. These findings have important implications for how citizens evaluate candidates, how scholars measure leader quality, and how we think about the role of education in policymaking.

Data sources are described in the paper

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• Number of cases: 21381

• No. of variables per record: 41

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data on municipal economic growth in Brazil and mayoral education

• electoral_unit - TSE municipality code
• state - State
• munic_name - Name of municipality
• name - Name of the mayor
• marg - Margin of victory of mayor
• edu_years - Years of education of the mayor
• college - Equal to 1 if mayor graduated from college
• gender - Equal to 1 if mayor is female
• gdpgrowth2000 - GDP growth in 2000 in relation to 1999
• gdpgrowth2001 - GDP growth in 2001 in relation to 2000
• gdpgrowth2002 - GDP growth in 2002 in relation to 2001
• gdpgrowth2003 - GDP growth in 2003 in relation to 2002
• gdpgrowth2004 - GDP growth in 2004 in relation to 2003
• gdpgrowth2005 - GDP growth in 2005 in relation to 2004
• gdpgrowth2006 - GDP growth in 2006 in relation to 2005
• gdpgrowth2007 - GDP growth in 2007 in relation to 2006
• gdpgrowth2008 - GDP growth in 2008 in relation to 2007
• gdpgrowth2009 - GDP growth in 2009 in relation to 2008
• gdpgrowth2010 - GDP growth in 2010 in relation to 2009
• gdpcapgrowth2000 - GDP per capita growth in 2000 in relation to 1999
• gdpcapgrowth2001 - GDP per capita growth in 2001 in relation to 2000
• gdpcapgrowth2002 - GDP per capita growth in 2002 in relation to 2001
• gdpcapgrowth2003 - GDP per capita growth in 2003 in relation to 2002
• gdpcapgrowth2004 - GDP per capita growth in 2004 in relation to 2003
• gdpcapgrowth2005 - GDP per capita growth in 2005 in relation to 2004
• gdpcapgrowth2006 - GDP per capita growth in 2006 in relation to 2005
• gdpcapgrowth2007 - GDP per capita growth in 2007 in relation to 2006
• gdpcapgrowth2008 - GDP per capita growth in 2008 in relation to 2007
• gdpcapgrowth2009 - GDP per capita growth in 2009 in relation to 2008
• gdpcapgrowth2010 - GDP per capita growth in 2010 in relation to 2009
• fd_r2004 - Fetal death growth in 2004 relation to 2003
• fd_r2005 - Fetal death growth in 2005 relation to 2004
• fd_r2006 - Fetal death growth in 2006 relation to 2005
• fd_r2007 - Fetal death growth in 2007 relation to 2006
• fd_r2008 - Fetal death growth in 2008 relation to 2007
• fd_r2009 - Fetal death growth in 2009 relation to 2008
• fd_r2010 - Fetal death growth in 2010 relation to 2009
• fd_r2011 - Fetal death growth in 2011 relation to 2010
• fd_r2012 - Fetal death growth in 2012 relation to 2011
• fd_r2013 - Fetal death growth in 2013 relation to 2012
• election_year

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: character

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.1581896414525952; Mean 0.1559507432664887; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 21381.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: StDev 3.7200056503375447; Mean 12.741927083333316; Min. 0.0; Valid 19200.0; Max. 16.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Mean 0.49239979420982; StDev 0.4999539252184542; Valid 21381.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Valid 18878.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.2835130678885582; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.08814493060705435

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.08938749657549544; Max. 0.8577080965042114; Min. -1.3163795471191406; Valid 20959.0; StDev 0.13821880150704258

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 0.9616180658340454; StDev 0.14542100541062603; Mean 0.07412533904336394; Valid 20959.0; Min. -1.8223217725753784;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.13496676109174693; Min. -2.35760760307312; Max. 0.8499219417572021; Valid 21142.0; Mean 0.1383902534887937;

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Min. -1.5266653299331665; Mean 0.0851722656756012; Valid 20347.0; StDev 0.12236259199079685; Max. 0.7742902040481567

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.12038694852171548; Valid 20358.0; Mean 0.09112772888280264; Max. 0.8012388348579407; Min. -1.6336454153060913

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.13920137150150433; Min. -1.222324013710022; Max. 0.8562195301055908; Mean 0.08193263250607553; Valid 20959.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.0685163216046316; Valid 20959.0; Max. 0.9601429104804993; StDev 0.14638443323950798; Min. -1.9508613348007202

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.13172235744922342; Max. 0.8507493138313293; StDev 0.1365719050554667; Min. -2.395686388015747; Valid 21142.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Valid 20335.0; StDev 0.4033737166884852; Mean 0.07702312688653197; Max. 0.9228911399841309; Min. -12.063077926635742

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.07917467629436277; StDev 0.12150217868446922; Max. 0.7649681568145752; Min. -1.570006251335144; Valid 20347.0

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.13851799848292262; Valid 20347.0; Min. -1.3990213871002197; Max. 0.8452954292297363; Mean 0.05092561685191097;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.12181380748580978; Max. 0.8016782402992249; Mean 0.0853791777722036; Valid 20358.0; Min. -1.6680402755737305;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 0.9162001013755798; StDev 0.17975440144128071; Mean 0.07367281450366149; Min. -6.1606550216674805; Valid 20343.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Valid 21158.0; Min. -1.5766714811325073; StDev 0.11178453877862161; Max. 0.7196318507194519; Mean 0.13172133453251406

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.05992608195682838; Valid 21146.0; StDev 0.14919392441839677; Min. -5.131996154785156; Max. 0.8780654668807983;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Valid 21140.0; Max. 0.82867431640625; Mean 0.1328795424962453; StDev 0.11599258824846873; Min. -0.973987877368927;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Min. -9.0; StDev 1.078341969653658; Valid 9262.0; Mean -0.05781513769473023; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:MBu/iTgqPLbKA60N8V+1Xg==

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Summary Statistics: StDev 1.1780862126681861; Max. 1.0; Min. -17.0; Valid 9321.0; Mean -0.08953421217678599

Variable Format: numeric

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f2689423 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Mean -0.10598617079845507; Valid 9153.0; StDev 1.192815557857889; Min. -9.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean -0.06946525993991373; Min. -8.0; Valid 8871.0; StDev 1.0968854395326162; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f2689423 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 8882.0; StDev 1.1343163449380622; Max. 1.0; Mean -0.00608594214115294; Min. -20.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.004801355896941428; StDev 1.032210446624944; Min. -11.0; Max. 1.0; Valid 8602.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f2689423 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.108236366205415; Mean -0.01941182332454439; Valid 8385.0; Min. -10.0; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:7IMtJO1/o2UK31t67hcbLQ==

f2689423 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.9753941765744888; Min. -9.0; Mean 0.061668244820628305; Max. 1.0; Valid 8509.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:LYfMre6yMz5bsQO2ZM4tYg==

f2689423 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.0042576292410053; Mean 0.03724479195826967; Valid 8089.0; Max. 1.0; Min. -9.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:EtYFoFbFaAjerBTWhy7EIw==

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Summary Statistics: StDev 1.1152376534890098; Mean 0.013769767865677917; Max. 1.0; Valid 8084.0; Min. -10.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:c3tZ4GmK7x+t+zK0SrDa1g==

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Summary Statistics: Min. 2000.0; Valid 21381.0; Mean 2006.0680043028858; StDev 4.463934687836573; Max. 2012.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:iZCmxZUoLdxy7UYWAfHgBA==

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Brazil mayors audit.dta

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Data on Brazilian municipal audits and mayoral education

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Brazil mayors elect.dta

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Data on Brazilian municipal elections and mayoral education

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Cross-national leaders.dta

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Data on national executives' education and performance

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leader_education_replication_code.do

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Stata 14 do-file for replicating results reported in paper and online appendix

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US Congress.dta

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Data on education of members of US Congress and performance

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