Replication Package for “Trade Policy, Industrial Subsidies, and the Structural Trap: Policy Shock Evidence from India’s Product Space”

This replication package contains all data and R code required to reproduce the empirical results in Vhankade and Gaur (2026), “Structural Transformation, Institutional Constraints, and Export Upgrading: Product Space Evidence from India,” submitted to the Journal of Development Economics. The paper constructs a monthly Structural Change Index (SCI) for India using commodity-level export data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S) and Product Complexity Index values computed from the Harvard Growth Lab Atlas. It estimates the effects of India’s RCEP exit (November 2019) on import penetration using a triple-difference design, and the effects of Production Linked Incentive schemes on import substitution using a difference-in-differences design. The package includes R scripts for all analyses, computed intermediate datasets, and a README with step-by-step replication instructions. The DGCI&S trade micro data require a separate access application to the Government of India; the package provides the derived datasets and all publicly available inputs.