U.S. state legislatures from 2017 to 2022 provide data on the number of bills introduced, contributions to bills, and legislative effectiveness scores for women and men state legislators. The dataset includes code and data to replicate the analysis of how increased female representation impacts legislative behavior. It was authored by Emma Schroeder and hosted on Harvard Dataverse.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between gender composition and legislative productivity based on bill introduction counts.
- Study patterns of collaboration and influence using data on primary and co-sponsorship contributions.
- Model the determinants of legislative effectiveness based on the provided effectiveness scores.
- Replicate and extend the original study's findings on gender dynamics in state politics.
Strengths
- Covers a six-year time range from 2017 to 2022.
- Includes replication code alongside the data, facilitating verification and extension.
- Focuses on a specific research question regarding gender and legislative behavior across all U.S. state legislatures.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official state legislative records and scoring systems.
- Time Range
- 2017 to 2022
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-04 14:50:30; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- All U.S. state legislatures