ISPS ID:
D119
Suggested citation:
Tiffany C. Davenport, 2014, Replication materials for ‘Policy-Induced Risk and Responsive Participation: The Effect of a Son’s Conscription Risk on the Voting Behavior of His Parents,’ http://hdl.handle.net/10079/85c38a39-ac0d-45cf-9fed-d88ffdc49d54, ISPS Data Archive.
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Research design:
Data type:
Administrative
Data source(s):
Author; New Hampshire State Library; New Hampshire town clerk offices
Data source information:
isps(at)yale(dot)edu
Field date:
June 15, 2010
Field Date:
1969 - 1972
Location:
Location details:
New Hampshire
Unit of observation:
Individual
Sample size:
7,093
Inclusion/exclusion:
The 1969 lottery was reported to determine the fate of a draft pool of 850,000 men nationally; The study sample consists of 7,093 mothers and fathers of 3,933 draft-eligible men born in 167 small towns in New Hampshire from 1950 to 1952. Every son in the sample was assigned a lottery number in the 1969, 1970, or 1971 draft lottery, depending on his date of birth. Towns were included if they consisted of a singlevoting district and if vital statistics information from 1950 to 1952 and turnout data from 1964, 1968, and 1972 were all available.
Randomization procedure:
Random assignment of induction priority in the Vietnam draft lotteries: In the first draft in 1969, 13 of 366 possible birth dates were drawn. Parents were also assigned numbers signifying draft risk; the probability that parents were assigned to high draft risk (a low number) is a function not only of the year in which a son was born, but also of how many sons they had.
Treatment:
Son received a random sequence number (RSN) beneath the respective lottery ceiling (the highest number called in a given year).
Treatment administration:
Mail
Outcome measures:
Voter turnout (for parents of sons)
Archive date:
2015
Owner:
Author
Owner contact:
isps(at)yale(dot)edu
Terms of use:
Academic, non-commercial; see ISPS Terms of Use http://isps.yale.edu/research/data/terms-of-use
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