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MArch 27, 2017


This folder contains the replication files for the paper "Legislative Behavior Absent Reelection Incentives: Findings from a Natural Experiment in the Arkansas Senate", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, forthcoming.

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Authors' contact information			

Andrew Feher
Research Analyst
Covered California
andrew.feher@covered.ca.gov

						
Rocio Titiunik
James Orin Murfin Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Michigan	
titiunik@umich.edu

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File description

Files for Main Analysis
ar-data-final-v12.dta					Dataset in Stata 12 format
ar-data-final-v12.csv					Dataset in CSV format
01-analysis-main-covariates.R				R code for covariate balance (Tables 1, 5, A3, and A4)
01-analysis-main-outcomes-DescSharpNullCI.R		R code for descriptive statistics (Table 2), and for Fisherian confidence intervals and tests for outcomes (Tables 3 and A5)
01-analysis-main-outcomes-bounds.R			R code for bounds analysis (Table 6)
01-analysis-main-outcomes-EquivTests.R			R code for tests of equivalence (Table 4)
01-boxplots.R						R code to produce all box plots (Figures 2 and 3)
bound-functions-v1.R					R function called by 01-analysis-main-outcomes-bounds.R
equivalence-functions.R					R function called by 01-analysis-main-outcomes-EquivTests.R
Randominf-functions.R					R function called by 01-analysis-main-outcomes-DescSharpNullCI.R
README.txt:						This file

Files for Supplemental Appendix analysis
01-analysis-main-covariates-1997.R			R code for covariate balance for 1997 (Table A1)
01-analysis-main-covariates-2007.R			R code for covariate balance for 2007 (Table A2)
01-analysis-main-outcomes-DescSharpNullCI-1997.R	R code for Fisherian confidence intervals and tests for 1997 outcomes (Table A6)
01-analysis-main-outcomes-DescSharpNullCI-2007.R	R code for Fisherian confidence intervals and tests for 2007 outcomes (Table A7)


