ECIN Replication Package for "Replication of 'How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?'"

<div>Materials from my replication of Hunt &amp; Gauthier-Loiselle (2010) (hereafter HGL). </div><div> </div><div><span>Folder "data" contains the dataset "finaldata.dta" obtained from original authors' replication files: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/114172/version/V1/view">https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/114172/version/V1/view</a></span> </div><div><br></div><div>"2010_hgl_replication.Rproj" is the R project file for the analysis
folder "code" contains the code used in the replication.
</div><ul><li>"recreate_t7iv.R" contains code to rerun the instrumental variables
estimates in R from HGL's table 7, and provide estimates when recreating
the instrument from scratch.</li><li>"recreate_table8.R" contains the code used to rerun the instrumental
variables estimates in R from HGL's table 8, and provide estimates when
recreating the instrument from scratch.</li><li>"bw_analysis_t8.R" contains the code to check the robustness of HGL's results against the new diagnostic tests.</li><li>"bw.cpp" contains the C++ code used to implement methods from Goldsmith-Pinkham et al. (2020)</li><li>"tables.do" contains the Stata code used by HGL for their estimates in a single do file</li></ul><div>
R packages used: tidyverse, haven, janitor, kableExtra, Rcpp, fixest, modelsummary, scales.</div><div><br></div><div>Analysis conducted using R version 4.2.0<br></div><br>