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Data from Black and Owens (2016) and Hazlett (2020)
Description
The contenderJudges dataset is from Black and Owens (2016): Courting the president: how circuit court judges alter their behavior for promotion to the Supreme Court
This dataset includes 10,171 period-judge observations for a total of 68 judges.
The treatment variable of interest is treatFinal0
, which indicates whether there was a vacancy in the Supreme Court
The outcome of interest is ideological alignment of judges' votes with the sitting President (presIdeoVote
).
The remaining variables are characteristics of the judges and courts, to be used as controls.
The LaLonde dataset has treated units from Dehejia and Wahba (1999), containing 185 individuals; data on the control units is from Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID-1), containing 2,490 individuals.
Usage
data(hbal)
Source
Black, R. C., and Owens, R. J. (2016). Courting the president: how circuit court judges alter their behavior for promotion to the Supreme Court. American Journal of Political Science, 60(1), 30-43.
Dehejia, R. H., and Wahba, S. (1999). Causal effects in nonexperimental studies: Reevaluating the evaluation of training programs. Journal of the American statistical Association, 94(448), 1053-1062.
Hazlett, C. (2020). KERNEL BALANCING. Statistica Sinica, 30(3), 1155-1189.