Data for Allen, Dechow, Pope, and Wu (2016)
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Full sample (n = 9,789,093) data files. A full list of marathons is found here. Description of variable found below.
- Stata (2.69 gigabytes)
- CSV (1.15 gigabytes)
Full-split sample (n = 873,674) data files:
- Stata (240.3 megabytes)
- CSV (119.8 megabytes)
Marathon experience sample (n = 1,618,428) data files
- Stata (296.7 megabytes)
- CSV (141.4 megabytes)
Variables
- age: age of marathoner
- gender: gender of marathoner ("F" or "M")
- female: 1 if GENDER="F"
- split_10k: 10 kilometer split in minutes
- split_half: half marathon split in minutes
- split_30k: 30k split in minutes
- split_40k: 40k split in minutes
- chiptime: chip time in minutes
- clocktime: clock time in minutes
- marathon: name of marathon
- year: year of marathon
- marathon2: marathon name appended with year (a "marathon-year")
- finishers: number of finishers for the marathon-year
- meantime: mean chip time for the respective marathon-year
- country: country marathon held
- us: 1 if marathon held in United States
- canada: 1 if marathon held in Canada
- europe: 1 if marathon held in Europe
- other: 1 if marathon not held in US, Canada, or Europe
- age_gender: 1 if non-missing age and gender
Stata scripts