Replication package for: "Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality"

These are the replication files for "Vaccines and Verdicts: How Smallpox Court Decisions Affect Anti-Vaccine Discourse and Mortality." They include scraped data from the Chronicling America newspaper archive and research assistant (RA) labels for pages containing anti-vaccine sentiment. The paper estimates anti-vaccine sentiment for the remaining pages and examines how court decisions effect anti-vaccine sentiment. It also generates a proxy for smallpox mortality.