Working-Class Legislators and Bill Introduction Replication Data

Nicholas Weller provided this replication dataset in March 2026 to support research on the substantive representation of working-class legislators in the US Congress. It includes the raw data and Stata .do files necessary to recreate the statistical analyses presented in the associated publication's main text and appendices.

Use Cases

• Replicating statistical models of bill writing frequency among working-class representatives
• Analyzing the correlation between legislator occupational background and legislative output
• Validating the evidence regarding substantive representation in the US Congress

Strengths

• Includes Stata .do files for full analytical transparency
• Directly supports peer-reviewed findings on legislative representation
• Focuses on the specific demographic of working-class legislators

Limitations

• Unknown total record count
• Geographic scope limited to the United States Congress
• Requires Stata software to execute provided replication scripts

Provenance

Source

Nicholas Weller, Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Replication package for academic publication

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

United States