Homophily in Voting Behavior: Evidence from Preferential Voting

This is a dataset for the paper <em>"Homophily in Voting Behavior: Evidence from Preferential Voting"</em> (co-authored by Lucie Coufalová and Michal Ševčík) that allows for the replication of all regression tables and descriptive statistics. There are four files in the dataset: "rdata.csv" is the main file with data used in regressions "homo_occupation.csv" is an auxiliary file with data used to calculate some descriptive statistics "municipalities_age.csv" is an auxiliary file with data used to calculate some descriptive statistics "replication_data_20220910.RData" is a file that contains all tables packed and compressed for use in R. <strong> Tables</strong><br> rdata...main data table used in regressions<br> homo_occupation...auxiliary data table used in descriptive stats<br> municipality_ages...auxiliary data table used in descriptive stats <strong>Variables</strong><br> <em> Outcome:</em><br> pref...number of preferential votes <em> Variables of interest:</em><br> homo_municipality...indicator variable for a candidate running in the municipality of his/her residence<br> homo_(education/occupation/age/gender)...percentage of the population sharing the characteristic of the candidate <em> Other variables:</em><br> KOD_OBEC...municipality ID in CISOB classification<br> total_fe...ID of candidate-election pair<br> maxPORCISLO...number of candidates on the ballot<br> cluster_ID...ID for error term clustering<br> POC_HLASU...total number of votes cast for the party in the given municipality<br> small_municipality...indicator variable for a municipality with a population below the median (defined separately <br> for each year and constituency)<br> year...election year (election ID)<br> VOLKRAJ...constituency ID<br> PORCISLO...position of the candidate on the ballot<br> VEK...age<br> agecat...age category<br> MANDAT...indicator variable for elected candidates<br> tertiary_educ...indicator variable for candidates with tertiary education<br> gender...male/female<br> ger_share...indicator variable for municipality being dominated by ethnic Germans in 1930