Climate Change and Education in the Global Tropics

This project contains the Stata code as well as additional information used for the following paper:<br><br>Randell, H &amp; C Gray (Forthcoming). Climate Change and Education in the Global Tropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<br><br>The data are publicly available and can be accessed freely. The census data were obtained from IPUMS-International (https://international.ipums.org/international/) and the climate data were obtained from the CRU-Time Series Version 4.00 (http://data.ceda.ac.uk//badc/cru/data/cru_ts/cru_ts_4.00/).<br><br>We include three do-files in this project:<br>"Climate_-1_to_5.do" -- this file was used to convert the climate data into z-scores of climatic conditions experienced during ages -1 to 5 years among children in the sample. "ClimEducation_PNAS_FINAL.do" -- this file was used to process the census data downloaded from IPUMS-International, link it to the climate data, and perform all of the analyses in the study.<br>"Climate_6-10_and_11-current.do" -- this file was used to convert the climate data into z-scores of climatic conditions experienced during ages 6-10 and 11-current age among children in the sample.In addition, we include a shapefile (as well as related GIS files) for the final sample of analysis countries. The attribute "birthplace" is used to link the climate data to the census data. <br><br>We include Python scripts for extracting monthly climate data for each 10-year temperature and precipitation file downloaded from CRU. "py0_60" extracts data for years one through five, and "py61_120" extracts data for years six through ten.<br><br>Lastly, we include an excel file with inclusion/exclusion criteria for the countries and censuses available from IPUMS.