Replication Data for: Gift Travel in the U.S. House of Representatives (doi:10.7910/DVN/TM8V2K)

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Replication Data for: Gift Travel in the U.S. House of Representatives

doi:10.7910/DVN/TM8V2K

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2021-05-06

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Moniz, Philip; McGee, Zachary, 2021, "Replication Data for: Gift Travel in the U.S. House of Representatives", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TM8V2K, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:mIaVNJ1CNQvY9uW1DKGj7w== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Gift Travel in the U.S. House of Representatives

doi:10.7910/DVN/TM8V2K

Moniz, Philip (University of Texas at Austin)

McGee, Zachary (University of Texas at Austin)

Harvard Dataverse

Moniz, Philip

Moniz, Philip

2021-05-05

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TM8V2K

Social Sciences

Members of Congress take more than 2,000 trips sponsored by private organizations and interest groups every congress. Utilizing a new data set of gift travel from 2007 to 2019 and interviews with former members of Congress, current and former congressional staffers, and staffers from interest groups that fund trips, we attempt to answer two core questions about this increasingly frequent behavior. Why do members take privately sponsored trips and what types of groups are driving this behavior? We argue that members of Congress take trips because they believe it makes them more effective legislators by exposing them to real-world consequences of their policy decisions and forcing them to build relationships with their fellow members. Trip sponsors, alternatively, seek to persuade and build relationships with members of Congress that ultimately shape their legislative coalitions. We find that trip-taking is associated with greater legislative effectiveness, in particular for Democrats, and that the provision of policy-specific information is a valuable benefit from taking these trips.

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• Number of cases: 2621

• No. of variables per record: 34

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Dataset in which observations are members of Congress

• Number of cases: 1943

• No. of variables per record: 18

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Dataset in which observations are travel sponsors

• Number of cases: 13219

• No. of variables per record: 12

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Dataset in which observations are trips

• Numeric.counter.for.order.in.THOMAS.data.from.93rd...110th.Congresses - Numeric.counter.for.order.in.THOMAS.data.from.93rd...110th.Congresses
• Legislator.name..as.given.in.THOMAS - Legislator.name..as.given.in.THOMAS
• cong - cong
• Year.at.start.of.Congress - Year.at.start.of.Congress
• Two.letter.state.code - Two.letter.state.code
• Congressional.district.number - Congressional.district.number
• democrat - democrat
• Year.first.elected.to.House - Year.first.elected.to.House
• female - female
• winpct - winpct
• First.dimension.DW.NOMINATE.score - First.dimension.DW.NOMINATE.score
• X1..Speaker - X1..Speaker
• subchair - subchair
• black - black
• latino - latino
• votepct.squared - votepct.squared
• power.committee - power.committee
• chair - chair
• stateleg - stateleg
• statelegxprof - statelegxprof
• majority - majority
• extremity - extremity
• seniority - seniority
• trips - trips
• leader - leader
• foreign.trips - foreign.trips
• member.trips - member.trips
• domestic.trips - domestic.trips
• staffer.trips - staffer.trips
• ICPSRnumber - ICPSRnumber
• LES - LES
• trips_solo - trips_solo
• trips_group - trips_group
• days.traveled - days.traveled
• TravelSponsor - TravelSponsor
• cong - cong
• guests - guests
• events - events
• guestsPerEvent - guestsPerEvent
• republican.guests - republican.guests
• lobbyist.perc - lobbyist.perc
• lobbyist.hired - lobbyist.hired
• foreign - foreign
• constituency - constituency
• industry - industry
• issue - issue
• other - other
• thinktank - thinktank
• PAC - PAC
• foundation - foundation
• sponsor.type - sponsor.type
• guests3 - guests3
• MemberName - MemberName
• MemberTrip - MemberTrip
• Destination - Destination
• Foreign - Foreign
• TravelSponsor - TravelSponsor
• TripID - TripID
• party - party
• cong - cong
• ICPSRnumber - ICPSRnumber
• lobbyist_full - lobbyist_full
• lobbyist_present - lobbyist_present
• n_travelers - n_travelers

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dhOAIY+uQNdSrH/46qFT2Q==

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Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 2018.0; Valid 2621.0; Mean 2001.7523845860358; Min. 1955.0; StDev 9.806180820721119;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.17970240366272475; Max. 1.0; Valid 2621.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.38401264683514846

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 0.11944940786636124; Valid 2619.0; Max. 1.422999978; StDev 0.5153839444849138; Min. -0.916000009

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.4141653306609998; Valid 2621.0; Mean 0.21976344906524206; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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f4621687 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

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f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; StDev 0.4301364584552905; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.24494467760396801; Valid 2621.0

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.4999319891651451; Max. 1.0; Valid 2621.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.5127813811522328

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:MECAkCyRC4bvyrMXDbK0yQ==

f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.15251144856374046; StDev 0.1942752598491465; Max. 0.658999979; Min. 0.0; Valid 2620.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.4966529983541248; Mean 0.5585654330408238; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 2621.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Max. 1.600000024; Min. 2.38E-10; Mean 0.46420912824891375; StDev 0.3099590589309762; Valid 2618.0

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f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 30.0; StDev 4.539103405397156; Min. 1.0; Mean 5.658908813429986; Valid 2621.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Teket+QTtFNlC6MAU8cwsQ==

f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 2621.0; Max. 50.0; StDev 4.733508046265695; Min. 0.0; Mean 5.0339565051507105

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:U3lCuDln0b7+qBMvLOQtYQ==

f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.05646699732926383; Valid 2621.0; StDev 0.23086535218149934;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:66bs8zLKkTAc2oTeQ5C2jg==

f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 16.0; StDev 1.7744085923352495; Min. 0.0; Mean 1.421594811140785; Valid 2621.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 19.0; Mean 1.553218884120173; StDev 2.011762412099081; Valid 2330.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 2621.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 3.911777796331294; Mean 3.613887829072871; Max. 44.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 4.003873707770205; Min. 0.0; Mean 4.111158798283257; Max. 45.0; Valid 2330.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: Mean 22831.634109118608; Max. 99342.0; StDev 6735.179783387084; Valid 2621.0; Min. 2605.0

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f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 2621.0; StDev 1.3019693413021727; Min. 0.0; Max. 18.68638611; Mean 1.0027703710698208

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 32.0; StDev 2.0481526767135017; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.9404807325448343; Valid 2621.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 43.0; StDev 3.8030393893995513; Valid 2621.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 4.095001907668833;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:e0eAmtMHP6Hj1ghPziNymQ==

f4621687 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 166.0; StDev 19.722697143841366; Valid 2621.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 20.973292636398302;

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621691 Location:

Variable Format: character

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f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 112.14101904271745; Valid 1943.0; StDev 1.6226640157087717; Min. 110.0; Max. 115.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 648.0; Min. 1.0; Valid 1943.0; StDev 28.307353065130982; Mean 6.801852804940855;

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 2.003088008234684; Max. 36.0; StDev 2.811260045648309; Valid 1943.0; Min. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 2.001545894361812; Valid 1943.0; Max. 43.07692308; Min. 1.0; StDev 2.7857346166518235;

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f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4273341277008308; Max. 1.0; Valid 1942.0; Mean 0.3832156591678685;

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.19467831222078508; Min. 0.0; Valid 1934.0; StDev 0.3823593808666946; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:T1pYqOA9XQ/tzXt4s7qz7Q==

f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Mean 0.25180972078593616; Min. 0.0; Valid 1934.0; StDev 0.43416477425507144

Variable Format: numeric

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f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.23150311824240888; StDev 0.41481834275055657; Valid 1943.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Y9Vo6tx+znKcAfrzkDerug==

f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.24357192958062276; Valid 1943.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.06330416881111699; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:AGADoJ8m5E2rSOicwkuohA==

f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.3561502830674216; StDev 0.478983649853158; Valid 1943.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:/FgL4o7dVuRBRSeJ0fJ9wA==

f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4786731503326182; Valid 1943.0; Mean 0.35512094698919167;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:BxmclIzaVG+Re4ZIeAHDCQ==

f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.22902727740607348; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 1943.0; StDev 0.420315009592232;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:FhS3cjD1DjDC5Lwtg8I/iA==

f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.24903046724325512; Mean 0.06639217704580547; Valid 1943.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:Z3oo2L8yyp2SwyqkHrkMmQ==

f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Valid 1943.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.10095867144038909; Mean 0.010293360782295369;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:yoH41hk7VNuOyfUI8md4GQ==

f4621691 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.022645393721050202; Min. 0.0; Valid 1943.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.14880852348341767

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: character

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f4621691 Location:

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Summary Statistics: Max. 200.0; Mean 156.2868815251927; Valid 13218.0; StDev 49.605052974139554; Min. 100.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: StDev 1.6129779830026243; Max. 115.0; Valid 13219.0; Mean 112.94447386337848; Min. 110.0

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Summary Statistics: Valid 13219.0; Mean 22397.916029956872; Min. 2605.0; Max. 99342.0; StDev 6369.725259541297;

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.3493517740366084; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; Valid 13150.0; Mean 0.142281368821268;

Variable Format: numeric

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Summary Statistics: StDev 42.157420101931194; Max. 158.0; Min. 1.0; Valid 13219.0; Mean 26.2134049474231;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:3Au8PWP557MwTddNcMExpg==

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