Environmental Regulation, Farmer Adaptation, and Grain Output: Evidence from China’s Straw Burning Ban

This dataset provides the public replication package for the article “Environmental Regulation, Farmer Adaptation, and Grain Output: Evidence from China’s Straw Burning Ban.” The study examines how China’s straw burning ban affected household-level grain output using a staggered difference-in-differences design and household panel data for 2009–2018. The original household and village microdata used in the article are from the China National Fixed-Point Survey administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China. These data are restricted government-managed research-use data and cannot be publicly shared, copied, exported, or redistributed. Therefore, this public package provides synthetic replacements for the restricted household and village data. The synthetic data are intended to document the data structure, variable names, code workflow, and computational procedures. They are not intended to reproduce the exact coefficients, standard errors, or statistical significance reported in the article. Exact numerical replication requires authorized onsite access to the original restricted household and village data. The package includes synthetic household-level and village-level data files, public provincial-level data compiled from published statistical and environmental sources, the merged analysis dataset, Stata do-files for data construction and analysis, output tables and figures, and a README file. The main public workflow first runs `merging_file.do` to construct `Dataset.dta` from the included synthetic and provincial input files, and then runs `StrawBurningBan_Paper_Final.do` to generate the packaged tables and figures. `PlaceboTest.dta` is regenerated by the main analysis do-file and used for the placebo test figure.