Empirical Materials for "The Persistence of the Harvest in Medieval England"

This is a replication package for "the Persistence of the Harvest in Medieval England."<br><br>Notes for replicating results from “The Persistence of the Harvest in Medieval England.”<br>The two data files contain yields per acre and per seed, the rest of the control variables are the same for both files. Format is STATA data file.<br> File 1: yieldsperacre.dta File 2: yieldperseed.dta<br>File 1 is used to produce Panel A for most tables (i.e., those tables having two panels), file 2 produces Panel B for most tables. <br>List of variables in data files: yldw: wheat yields (per seed or acre) with date stubyldo: oat yields (per seed or acre) with date stubyldb: barley yields (per seed or acre) with date stubsow: typical sow rates for wheat by periodsowo: typical sow rates for oats by periodsow: typical sow rates for barley by periodani: typical # of draft animals by manor by periodacres: mean acres sown by period by manorsheep: typical # of sheep by manor by periodprecip: measured precipitation by yearpreciptr: 30 year moving average of precipitationtemp: measured temperature by yeartempr: 30 year moving average of temperaturedpop: change in manor’s population density over periodpop: population level in perioddis: distance of manor to Londoncroptype: code for crop mix, from Campbellhustype: code for husbandry, from Campbellfarmtype: code for farming strategy, from Campbellsoiltype: code for soil make up, geology of manor, from CampbellThe provided STATA *.do files are listed by the relevant table or figure in the text that they produce. Each do-file uses either data file 1 or data file 2 depending on which panel of the relevant table is produced. To use the do file replace wd with your relevant data and working directory. All of the do files contain redundant code, they can be used for “stand alone” analysis in addition to producing the relevant table/figure.