Survey Experiment on Teaching National Unity with Founding Documents

Replication Data for 'Teaching Unity with Founding Documents' contains Stata data and a .do file from a spring 2025 survey experiment. The experiment investigated using founding documents to teach students to experience national unity versus political division. Jason Giersch authored the dataset, which was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze survey responses to measure changes in student perceptions of national unity versus division.
• Replicate statistical models from the original study using the provided Stata .do file.
• Examine experimental treatment effects on outcomes related to civic attitudes.
• Validate survey instrument reliability for future education research.

Strengths

• Includes replication code in the form of a Stata .do file for full analysis reproducibility.
• Dataset was updated in April 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Unknown sample size (row count) and number of survey variables (column count).
• Geographic and demographic coverage of the student sample is unspecified, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Jason Giersch via Harvard Dataverse.

Collection Method

Survey experiment conducted in spring 2025.

Time Range

Spring 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-06.