R: Gerber and Green Dataset used by Imai

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## Gerber and Green Dataset used by Imai

### Description

This is the dataset used by Imai (2005) to replicate and evaluate the field experiment done by Gerber and Green (2000). The accompanying demo replicates Imai's propensity score model which is then used to estimate the causal effect of get-out-the-vote telephone calls on turnout.

### Usage

    data(GerberGreenImai)

### Format

A data frame with 10829 observations on the following 26 variables.

PERSONS

  Number persons in household

WARD

  Ward of residence

QUESTION

  Asked to commit to voting

MAILGRP

  Sent mail

PHONEGRP

  Phone batch \#1

PERSNGRP

  Personal contact attempted

APPEAL

  Content of message

CONTACT

  Personal contact occurred

MAILINGS

  Number of mailings sent

AGE

  Age of respondent

MAJORPTY

  Democratic or Republican

VOTE96.0

  Abstained in 1996

VOTE96.1

  Voted in 1996

MAILCALL

  Phone batch \#2

VOTED98

  Voted in 1998

PHNSCRPT

  Script read to phone respondents

DIS.MC

  Contacted by phone in batch \#2

DIS.PHN

  Contacted by phone in batch \#1

PHN.C

  Contacted by phone

PHNTRT1

  Phone contact attempted (no blood or blood/civic)

PHNTRT2

  Phone contact attempted (no blood)

PHN.C1

  Contact occurred in phntrt1

PHN.C2

  Contact occurred in phntrt2

NEW

  New voter

phone

  Contacted by phone

AGE2

  Age squared

### Details

The demo provided, entitled `GerberGreenImai`, uses Imai's propensity score model to estimate the causal effect of get-out-the-vote telephone calls on turnout. The propensity score model fails to balance age.

### References

Gerber, Alan S. and Donald P. Green. 2000. “The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment.” American Political Science Review 94: 653-663.

Gerber, Alan S. and Donald P. Green. 2005. “Correction to Gerber and Green (2000), replication of disputed findings, and reply to Imai (2005).” American Political Science Review 99: 301-313.

Imai, Kosuke. 2005. “Do Get-Out-The-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout? The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Experiments.” American Political Science Review 99: 283-300.

Hansen, Ben B. Hansen and Jake Bowers. forthcoming. “Attributing Effects to a Cluster Randomized Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign.” Journal of the American Statistical Association.

### See Also

Also see `Match` and `MatchBalance`, `GenMatch`, `balanceUV`, `ks.boot` `lalonde`

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