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Table 2 Summary statistics for political variables before 2000

From: The political economy of the disability insurance: theory and evidence of gubernatorial learning

 

N

Mean

Std. Dev.

Min

Max

Panel A: gubernatorial descriptive variables

First term governors

895

0.607

0.489

0.000

1.000

Second term governors

895

0.306

0.461

0.000

1.000

Third term or later governors

895

0.087

0.282

0.000

1.000

Governor is a democrat

912

0.487

0.500

0.000

1.000

Governor’s age

912

53.50

7.90

34.00

78.00

Panel B: gubernatorial outcome variables

Incumbents lost re-election

234

0.128

0.335

0.000

1.000

Incumbents could not run for re-election

905

0.239

0.427

0.000

1.000

Incumbents eligible to run but did not

839

0.175

0.380

0.000

1.000

Percent of votes captured by winner

250

56.88

7.69

35.40

82.40

Governors won with a margin of greater than 10 percentage points

950

0.625

0.484

0.000

1.000

Panel C: rules impacting gubernatorial influence/power

Governors has a line-item veto

912

0.854

0.353

0.000

1.000

Super-majority requirements for tax or expenditure increase

900

0.183

0.387

0.000

1.000

State has a limitation on tax or expenditure increases

900

0.453

0.498

0.000

1.000

State has a restrictive tax/expenditure limitations

900

0.258

0.438

0.000

1.000

Panel D: other political variables

One party received more than 60 percent of votes

384

0.167

0.373

0.000

1.000

Fraction of state senate members who are democrats

891

0.573

0.176

0.114

1.000

Fraction of state house or assembly members who are democrats

892

0.567

0.173

0.157

0.952

Fraction of state senate members who are women

912

0.191

0.085

0.016

0.433

Fraction of state house or assembly members who are women

912

0.142

0.093

0.000

0.469

Governor and legislative majority are of opposite parties

912

0.475

0.500

0.000

1.000

Governor and the president are of the same party

950

0.382

0.486

0.000

1.000

Governor and the president are of different parties

950

0.618

0.486

0.000

1.000

Governor is a republican and the president is a democrat

909

0.226

0.418

0.000

1.000

Percentage of expenditures that are deficit spending

864

0.438

0.080

0.238

0.705