DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3ffbg79wv
title: Data sets from: The role of universities in society

description: This study examines public views on universities’ societal roles beyond
 education and research. A representative sample of 2,089 U.S. citizens
 evaluates whether universities should engage in initiatives such as
 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Free Speech, and Environmental
 Sustainability, benchmarking views against corporations. We include an
 incentivized experiment asking respondents to allocate money between
 universities based on performance on various dimensions. Results show
 broad support for engagement in initiatives related to environmental
 sustainability, well-being, and free speech, but opposition to political
 activism. Views on DEI are polarized: Women and liberals reward
 universities excelling in DEI, but conservatives and men penalize them,
 even when academic performance is equal. These findings highlight the
 polarization surrounding universities’ societal roles.
description: Read me file - "The Role of Universities in Society"\ Michele
 Belot, Lea Cassar, and Karoline Strohlein
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 this repository replicate the analysis presented in the paper "The
 Role of Universities in Society." The analysis was conducted in Stata
 16 (Stata do-file 'Belot_Role_of_universities.do'). The do-file
 reproduces all tables presented in the Supplementary Materials Figures 1-3
 were created using Python (Python file Belot_figures.ipynb), based on
 analyses run in the main do-file Please look at the titles in the do-file
 for identifying the analysis corresponding to each table --- Main
 analysis: STATA DO-FILE 'Belot_The_role_of_universities.do' ---
 The do-file is structed in three sections * Section 1: Analysis based on
 part 1 of the surveys * Section 2: Analysis based on part 2 of the survey
 focused on universities (allocation task experiment) * Section 3: Analysis
 of correlations in responses in Parts 1 and 2 (RESULTS REPORTED UNDER
 'REsults/Allocation Task') Relevant datasets: For Section 1: *
 Belot_UNI_ALL_DATA.dta: Dataset containing all original data from the
 University Survey * Belot_COMPANIES_ALL_DATA.dta: Dataset containing all
 original data from the Corporations Survey For Section 2 (allocation task
 experiment): * Belot_UNI_DCE_wide.dta: Allocation decisions in wide format
 * Belot_UNI_scenario.dta: Scenarios (ranking of universities) *
 Belot_UNI_demographic.dta: Demographic data from respondents (from Part 3
 of the survey) For Section 3 * Belot_data_DCE.dta: Allocation decisions in
 long format * Belot_UNI_ALL_DATA.dta Figures 1, 2 and 3 can be replicated
 using the Python code in Belot_roleofuniversities_figures.ipynb --- ##
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