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Replication Data for: Raising Grievances to the State: The Political Economic Effects of Anti-Corruption Crackdowns on Labor Activism in China (ICPSR 308415)

Released/updated on: 2026-07-18

Geographic coverage: China

Time period: 2011-01-01--2020-12-31

This replication package accompanies "Raising Grievances to the State: The Political Economic Effects of Anti-Corruption Crackdowns on Labor Activism in China" (Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 181, April 2026). The paper studies how government actions shape workers' expected returns to striking by exploiting China's 2012 anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment. Using a city-level dataset linking Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) corruption inspections to labor strikes from 2011 to 2020, the analysis shows that strike incidents rise sharply after a city's first high-profile inspection, driven largely by wage-arrears disputes at private firms and concentrated in the construction and manufacturing sectors. Strikes also spread through network channels, with later-treated and neighboring cities responding to inspections elsewhere. The evidence indicates that inspections weakened firm-government ties and shifted government attention, raising workers' expected returns to striking and revealing pre-existing grievances.

The package contains the Stata (.do) and R (.R) scripts, cleaned prefecture-city-month and prefecture-city-quarter panel datasets, and documentation needed to reproduce every table and figure in the paper and its appendix, along with a README describing the data-cleaning sequence, computational requirements, and dataset provenance. Several restricted-access source files (a corruption-investigation microdataset, a national tax survey extract, and a prefecture panel from a related study) are not redistributed per their original data-use agreements; the README documents how to obtain them and which results depend on them.

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CBS News/New York Times/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Survey, February #2, 2011 (ICPSR 33486)

Released/updated on: 2012-05-23

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2011-02-01--2011-02-28

This poll, fielded February 24-27, 2011 is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked for their opinions on labor unions, the power of labor unions, and whether they or someone in their household was a member of a labor union. Respondents were also asked about state budget deficits, tax increases, loss of government programs and services, public employee salaries and benefits, police officers and firefighter retirements, teacher retirements, and whether the country was making positive progress. Additional topics included family financial status, rags to riches chances, quality of opportunities for success, concealed weapons, the Tea Party movement, voter registration status and voting participation, the September 11th attack, public employee benefits, collective bargaining rights, back pain, and allergies. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, employment status, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, and whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians.

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Work Stoppages Historical File, 1953-1981 [United States] (ICPSR 8156)

Released/updated on: 2006-01-12

Time period: 1952-01-01--1981-12-31

This collection contains data on work stoppages in the United States from three time periods: work stoppages that began in 1952 and continued into 1953, all private and public work stoppages during 1953-1977, and all public work stoppages for 1978-1981. There are two data files. Variables for Part 1, 1952-1977, All Work Stoppages, include case number (month, year, and stoppage number), duration, beginning and ending dates, number of workers affected, number of days idle, major issues, contract status, state identification code, and major industrial code. Variables for Part 2, 1978-1981, All Public Work Stoppages, include case number, duration, beginning and ending dates, number of workers affected, number of days idle, major issues, contract status, union support, union code, occupational group, official recognition, industry code, employer units -- private and public, number of hours in usual work week, mediation, settlement of stoppage, issues -- disposition and remaining, presence or absence of violence, state, and Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA).

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Collective Bargaining Contracts in the Canadian Public Sector, 1964-1987 (ICPSR 1100)

Released/updated on: 1996-01-03

Geographic coverage: Canada, Global

These data and/or computer programs are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the INVESTIGATOR(S) if further information is desired.

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Collaborative Research on a Micro Analysis of Union Wage Settlements in Manufacturing, 1957-1979 (ICPSR 8716)

Released/updated on: 1992-02-16

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1957-01-01--1979-12-31

This data collection provides data on the main provisions of a sample of collective bargaining agreements reached between 1957 and 1979. Information includes date and duration of contracts, cost of living adjustments, and profit sharing provisions. Economic indicators at the time of bargaining are also provided.

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Census of Governments, 1977: Bargaining Units Summary Statistics (ICPSR 8179)

Released/updated on: 1992-02-16

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1977-01-01--1977-12-31

The Census of Governments is conducted at five-year intervals by the Census Bureau and covers the following major subject areas: governmental organization, taxable property values, government employment, and government finances. The statistics in this data collection were gathered from a subset of units analyzed in the 1977 Census of Governments. Contained in that subset were all state and local governments that had one or more collective bargaining units, and data are provided for each bargaining unit. Information is included on the type of employees represented, whether the unit represented supervisory personnel, and the number of employees represented. Up to l3 bargaining units may be contained in one record, and governmental units with more than 13 units will have more than one record. There are 36 state governments and 12,110 local governments with bargaining units represented in this data collection.