Bazzi, Fiszbein and Gebresilasse (2020) "Frontier Culture" replication data

A subset of the data from Bazzi, Fiszbein and Gebresilasse (2020) used in the Diegert-Masten-Poirier (2026) sensitivity analysis vignette. Each row is a county; each column is a covariate used in the DMP empirical application.

Usage

bfg2020

Format

A data.frame with 2036 rows and 14 columns:

lat, lon

Latitude and longitude.

statea

State indicator (numeric).

avgrep2000to2016

Outcome: average Republican vote share, 2000-2016.

temp_mean, rain_mean, elev_mean

Climate / topography.

d_coa, d_riv, d_lak

Distance to coast / river / lake.

ave_gyi

Average GYI.

tye_tfe890_500kNI_100_l6

Treatment: years of frontier exposure.

log_area_2010

Log area, 2010.

km_grid_cel_code

Grid cell code used for clustering.

Source

Bazzi, Fiszbein and Gebresilasse (2020), "Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of 'Rugged Individualism' in the United States", Econometrica doi:10.3982/ECTA16484. A 14-variable, 2036-row subset of their public replication data, used here to demonstrate the package.