Replication Data for The Opioid Epidemic and Presidential Elections

Replication code for The Opioid Epidemic and Presidential Elections. The dataset likely contains proprietary data from NVSS micro MCOD files and David Leap's election data. It was authored by Nicole Siegal for the American Journal of Health Economics and last updated on May 12, 2026.

Use Cases

• Replicate statistical analyses linking opioid mortality data to election results.
• Study the political impact of public health crises based on proprietary mortality and election data.
• Analyze correlations between opioid epidemic metrics and presidential voting patterns.

Strengths

• Replication code is provided, facilitating reproducibility of the original study.
• Data sources are named as NVSS micro MCOD files and David Leap's election data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

American Journal of Health Economics

Collection Method

Proprietary data from NVSS micro MCOD files and David Leap's election data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 16:41:55; freshness should be verified.