The Grass Is Not Greener on the Other Side: The Role of Attention in Voting Behavior

<p>Replication script and data for paper &quot;The Grass Is Not Greener on the Other Side: The Role of Attention in Voting Behavior&quot;.</p> <p>The replication script (replication_code.R) is looking for the data in a directory ./DATA. Specifically, it reads data from .RData file (data_replication.RData) with the following variables:</p> <ul> <li>year ... Election year/Election ID,</li> <li>ballot ... Ballot ID -- a combination of KSTRANA (election-specific party ID), VOLKRAJ (constituency ID) and year,</li> <li>pref_hlasy ... Number of preferential votes (n),</li> <li>otherside ... Indicator variable for candidates listed on the reverse side,</li> <li>male ... Indicator variable for males,</li> <li>agecat ... Age category,</li> <li>VEK ... Age,</li> <li>ISCO ... ISCO 1 (other -- not categorized in ISCO),</li> <li>maxBallot ... Total number of candidates on the ballot,</li> <li>POC_HLASU ... Total number of votes cast for the party,</li> <li>dff ... Distance to break,</li> <li>ISCED* ... Indicator variables for ISCED categories</li> </ul> <p>Dataset contains only publicly available data described in the underlying paper. Voting data available from&nbsp;https://www.volby.cz/opendata/opendata.htm are augmented with ISCO categories and the variable &quot;otherside&quot;. Both were coded manually.</p>