Strengthening Protection, Weakening Jobs? The Social Insurance Law and Firm Employment Decisions in China

This replication package provides the data, Stata code, and detailed instructions needed to reproduce the main empirical results reported in the paper. Because of confidentiality restrictions on the original data, the package includes synthetic data along with the full set of replication codes. When run on the synthetic data, the replication codes will produce results that differ from those in the paper. For a replicator who has access to the confidential original data, the same replication codes will reproduce the results exactly as reported in the paper.