Replication data for: Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

The code, most data, and a description of how to obtain the remaining data required to replicate all exhibits in our paper, "Connective Financing. Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries," Journal of Urban Economics, 2024. The code in this replication package processes the data for each data source, builds intermediate data sets, extracts the relevant information specifically for the project, combines it, and generates the results using R and Stata. The master file runs the code to generate the data and the exhibits in the main paper and the online appendix. The replicator should expect the code to run for about 1-3 hours, depending on the computing resources available. Most of the individual scripts are fast (a few seconds or minutes), but a few scripts require some time to run.

本数据集包含代码、大部分数据以及获取剩余数据以复现我刊《连接性融资：中国基础设施项目与发展中国家经济活动扩散》一文中所有展示的具体方法描述。该复现包中的代码负责对每个数据源进行处理，构建中间数据集，针对项目提取相关信息，并使用 R 和 Stata 软件进行数据合并，最终生成结果。主文件运行该代码以生成正文及在线附录中的数据与展示。复现者应预计代码运行时间约为 1-3 小时，具体取决于可用计算资源。大部分独立脚本运行迅速（数秒或数分钟），但其中少数脚本执行时间较长。