Replication Data for: How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures

This folder contains the raw data and the state code to produce the dataset used in the paper \"How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior?\". The code produces all tables and figures in the paper and in the appendix. To replicate the findings, download the replication folder with all materials and set the working directory to this folder. Run the file replicate_how_do_electoral_incentives_affect_legislator_behavior.do in Stata. This will produce the main dataset from the raw input data and produce all the tables and figures and save them in the folder tables_figures. The individual results can also replicated using the dataset termlimited.dta in the data_output folder and the relevant do files. The do file electoral_incentives.do shows what do file is needed to replicate a particular table or figure in the paper or appendix.