Inference: Do small dollar donations reduce corporate influence in elections?
This project has three primary goals:
- Estimate the impact of “no corporate PAC” pledges on donations from small-dollar donors.
- Test for a substitution effect between donations from corporate PACs and small-dollar donors.
- Identify any influence of corporations through small-dollar donors.
I completed this project in R and code is linked below:
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Data Cleaning
Environment Preperation This section clears the current working environment and loads the packages used to visualize the data. I also create the function comma() to format any in-line output values to have thousands separators and only two digits.
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Data Visualization
Environment Preperation This section clears the current working environment and loads the packages used to visualize the data. I also create the function comma() to format any in-line output values to have thousands separators and only two digits.
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Data Analysis
Environment Preperation This section clears the current working environment and loads the packages used to visualize the data. I also create the function comma() to format any in-line output values to have thousands separators and only two digits.