Data and Codes for "Golden tears: A cross-country study of crying in the Olympics"
The enclosed dataset is named Olympics_tears.xls (Microsoft Excel file format) and the codes that reproduce the results in the paper are in the Stata do-file Olympics_tears.do. You need Stata Version 16 or later to run the do-file. The following are variables in the dataset and their descriptions:
- CRIED - Indicator for cried
- TIMECRIED - Time in seconds when the athlete starts crying (from end of competition or start of medal ceremony)
- AGE - Age of athlete, including the fractional part, as at the opening ceremony
- FEMALE - Indicator for female
- SPORT - Olympic sport discipline
- PREVGOLD - Indicator for gold in a previous Olympics or World Championship
- DOPED - Indicator for stripped medal due to doping
- LONDON - Indicator for London Olympics (1 London 2012, 0 Rio 2016)
- MEDCER - Indicator for medal ceremony (1 medal ceremony, 0 end of event)
- HOST - Indicator for host country
- CRIEDEND - Indicator for athlete cried at the end of event
- LGDPC - Logarithm of GDP per capita in current US dollars
- EF - Ethnic fractionalization index (1 diverse ethnicities, 0 homogeneous)
- LF - Lingusitic fractionalization index (1 diverse languages, 0 monolingual)
- RF - Religious fractionalization index (1 diverse religions, 0 one religion)
- LFPF - Labor force participation rate female (proportion)
- LFPM - Labor force participation rate male (proportion)
- SPW - Share of seats in parliament women (proportion)
- COUNTRY - Athlete's home country
- AFRICA - Indicator for Africa
- ASIA - Indicator for Asia
- EUROPE - Indicator for Europe
- N_AMERICA - Indicator for North America
- OCEANIA - Indicator for Oceania
- S_AMERICA - Indicator for South America
- REL - Religious commitment index (1 high, 0 low)
- MED_ID - Medal identifier
- CONTINENT - Athlete's home continent
- WHEN - Variable identifying when athlete knew they won
- HIGHLIGHTS - Indicator of whether video was a highlights package