13. Research Paper Assignment

Today’s tasks

1. Introduce a new data set.2. Discuss 3rd Paper assignment3. Discuss Norrander & Wilcox as an example of how to do analysis on a data set similar to ours.

Why a new data set?1. Two types of data sets used in analysis—individual & aggregate.2. The rest of the term we will be studying interval variables and there are few in the NES data.3. We want you to learn to add a variable to a data set and that is hard to do with the NES data.

State Legislative Data Set

Aggregate level data set: unit of analysis = state x chamber.

Variables primarily based on a survey of state legislators.

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The Norrander and Wilcox paper discusses a topic that can be examined with our data set.

I have added a variable to the data pctwmc_1which shows the percent of women in the chamber at the time of the survey.