DOI: 10.3886/e220524
title: Replication Codes for Politics at Work

description: This material contains data and code accompanying the article Politics at Work. In this paper, we study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes using new micro-data from Brazil. We first show that business owners are considerably more likely to employ copartisan workers. This phenomenon is in part driven by the overlapping of political and social networks. Multiple tests---surveys, event studies, analyses of wage premia and promotions within the firm, and a field experiment---further highlight how business owners' political preferences directly influence firms' employment decisions. A channel of political discrimination appears more relevant than one of political quid-pro-quo between firms and politicians.
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description: Response Rates: Most of the analysis in this paper is based on administrative data matched from multiple sources. Additionally, it incorporates surveys and experiments.<br><br>For the Phone Survey of Business Owners and Workers, the final response rate was 26.84% (31.40% for workers and 21.82% for business owners).<br><br>For the Incentivized Resume Rating (IRR) Experiment, we targeted a sample of 150 respondents and achieved a response rate of 11%.<br><br>For the survey of 503 workers and business owners focused on what it means to be a party member and how individual politics may affect hiring in Brazil, conducted through the commercial survey provider Dynata.
description: Presence of Common Scales: Given the three data collection methods used in this study, there is a variety of scales employed for measurement. These include a Likert scale from 1 to 7 and a scale ranging from 1 (“Totally disagree”) to 5 (“Totally agree”), among others. This diversity allows for a more nuanced analysis of respondents' perceptions and behaviors.
description: Most of the analysis in this paper is based on administrative data matched from multiple sources. Additionally, it incorporates surveys and experiments.<br><br>For the Phone Survey of Business Owners and Workers, we sampled respondents so that approximately half of respondents in both groups were politically affiliated as of 2020, and to ensure broad representativeness along gender, age, education, geographical region, firm size, and sector.<br><br>For the Incentivized Resume Rating (IRR) Experiment, we focus on owners who are affiliated with one of Brazil’s major political parties. We select three left-wing parties (“PT,” “PDT,” “PCdoB”) and four center-right wing parties (“PSDB,” “PMDB,” “DEM,” “PP”). We further restrict the sampling frame to owners whose firm had at least one employee. We ensure broad representativeness along gender, age, and education of the owner and along geographical region, size, and sector of the firm. <br><br>For the survey conducted through the commercial survey provider Dynata, the sampleis broadly representative of the Brazilian population.
description: The universe of this study consists of employees in the Brazilian formal private sector and employers who own the companies, considering their party affiliations.. Smallest Geographic Unit: Brazil
description: other; telephone interview; This study relies on a combination of administrative records data, experimental data, and survey data. The administrative records data are restricted-use due to containing identified and sensitive information.