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Replication data for: The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta

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Title Replication data for: The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29273
 
Creator Hsieh, Chang-Tai
Miguel, Edward
Ortega, Daniel
Rodriguez, Francisco
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description In 2004, the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters who had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to identify and punish these voters. We match the list of petition signers distributed by the government to household survey respondents to measure the economic effects of being identified as a Chavez political opponent. We find that voters who were identified as Chavez opponents experienced a 5 percent drop in earnings and a 1.3 percentage point drop in employment rates after the voter list was released.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Political Processes
Voting
Venezuela