Wow! This project looks amazing.
In it, three scientists at Columbia, Michigan, and Maryland introduce VRscores: a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the United States.
The dataset is constructed by linking U.S. voter registrations to online worker profiles.
The dataset covers the 2012-2022 period. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8 million workers across 2.6 million employers.
Wow!
Overall, many employers in their sample have a distinct Democratic tilt. Look at how few sectors are dominated by Republicans!
{This could have something to do with what orgs are in their database, but their sample is quite large!}
Look at how liberal Universities {left screenshot} are relative to their entire sample of employers {right screenshot}.
Here's a figure that summarizes the average party scores across sectors.
Here are the party leanings of various universities.
Look at how right-leaning BYU employees are! {BYU employees are significantly more to the right than even Liberty U. employees--wow!}
Here are various industries/sectors.
What stands out to you?
This is an incredible project.
And the data underlying these visualizations will soon by free and open to the public.
So cool.
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Data: vrscores.org/data-visualiza…
Looks like they are releasing the full dataset soon.
Sign up here to be notified when the data drops!
vrscores.org/data-download.…
Addendum: there will, inevitably, be many questions about how representative their sample is. I have some of those questions too!
We'll know more once their data drops.
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