Replication Data for: Natural Hazards, Social Policy, and Electoral Performance: Evidence from the 2017 Earthquake in Mexico City

These data files replicate the main findings of the paper "Natural Hazards, Social Policy, and Electoral Performance: Evidence from the 2017 Earthquake in Mexico City". The objective of this study is to analyze the political dimension of the 19-S earthquake that hit Mexico City in 2017, a few months prior to the 2018 elections. Using fine-grained geospatial data, our results show that candidates from the city-level incumbent PRD had a small increase in their vote share in 2018 compared to the previous election in precincts more exposed to the damaged caused by the earthquake (both in terms of distance-based and per capita measures), accounting for the seismic profile and socioeconomic characteristics of the neighborhood. We show that the implementation of disaster recovery policy explains part of this relationship; moreover, voters were as electorally responsive to a future risk-reduction strategy as to a reconstruction credit