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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Political Sci Res Methods. 2018 Nov 29;8(3):459–476. doi: 10.1017/psrm.2018.46

Table 2.

Effect of Term Extension on Constituency Services

Dependent Variable
Response Time
Time Framea 2 3 4 12
β^ b −1.194
 (0.751)
p = 0.112
−1.437
  (0.672)
p=0.033
−1.241
  (0.562)
p=0.028
−0.641
  (0.852)
p = 0.452
Time Framea 1 (Response Time < 5 Days)
   2    3    4   12
β^ b



Observations
0.032
 (0.011)
p = 0.005

117,276
0.016
 (0.009)
p = 0.073

171,419
0.018
 (0.010)
p = 0.065

230,067
0.005
 (0.010)
p = 0.629

663,880

Note: The average response time fell by more than one day in treated districts.

Standard errors clustered on districts in parentheses.

a

Weeks on either side of the extension used to estimate Equation 1.

b

Difference-in-differences estimator (see Equation 1).