This repository contains replication data for my term paper in the quantitative methods course at the TUM School of Governance.
The paper studies the relationship between economic inequality and the governments positioning on the left-right dimension in developed democracies. Static and dynamic linear regression models controlling for economic development, immigration, and ethnic fractionalization are implemented in R using the data provided here. The identical data is provided in three data formats (csv, stata-file, RData).
- Economic inequality & development: World Inequality Database - www.wid.world/data
- LR-index: PIP data set by the Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Greifswald - https://ipk.uni-greifswald.de/forschungsprojekte/parties-institutions-and-preferences-pip/
- Immigration data: World Development Indices by the World Bank - https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-indicators
- Ethnic fractionalization data: HIEF Index by Lenka Drazanova - https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/4JQRCL