dofiles_datastsets_JDE_Academic_Freedom_and_Creativity_An_Empirical_Investigation

Data and Code Repository: Academic Freedom and Creativity: An Empirical Investigation

**Overview**
This replication package contains the datasets and Stata do-files required to reproduce the empirical findings for the paper "Academic Freedom and Creativity: An Empirical Investigation" (Journal of Development Economics).

**Study Summary**
The accompanying research investigates the causal impact of academic freedom reforms on graduates' labor-market creativity. The study demonstrates that longer exposure to reformed higher-education environments significantly increases graduates' entry into creativity-intensive occupations, such as high-tech, research, and managerial roles. These effects are found to be most pronounced in developing countries and decentralized, low-corruption systems.

**Contents of this Package**
* **Datasets:**
Contains the cleaned data necessary for the empirical analysis, including graduate labor-market outcomes, higher-education reform indicators, and institutional environment variables.
* **Do-files (Stata Code):**
A complete set of Stata scripts designed to replicate all main results, tables, and figures presented in the paper. This includes the code for the primary Difference-in-Differences (DID) estimators, Instrumental-Variable (IV) strategies, and various placebo and robustness tests.

**Software Requirements**
* Stata (Version [Insert Version, e.g., 16.0] or higher)