Data and Code for: "Vulnerability and Clientelism"

The code and data in this repository generate the results of the paper “Vulnerability and Clientelism” by Bobonis, Gertler, Gonzalez-Navarro, and Nichter published in the American Economic Review.<br><br>The archive folder “dofiles” contains the code that organizes the data and performs the data analysis. <br><br>The master do file is `0.Master.do'. This do file calls all the other do files in the folder in the required sequence. Executing this do file will perform the following steps:<br><br>`1.Cleaning.do' cleans up the raw datasets. `2.Variable_Construction.do' creates the analysis variables from the raw household survey, `3.Voting_Analysis_Cleaning.do' does the same for the electoral outcomes dataset. These steps result in the workhorse datasets: <br>"data/final_data/clientelism_household_data.dta"<br>"data/final_data/clientelism_individual_data.dta"<br>"data/final_data/clientelism_individual_data_stacked.dta"<br>"data/final_data/voting_data.dta"<br><br>Next, the do file `4.Main_Tables.do' performs the statistical analysis and generates all the tables in the paper in Tex format found in folder "output". Lastly, the do file `5.Appendix_Tables.do' performs the statistical analysis and generates all the figures and tables reported in the online appendix. These figures and tables in pdf and tex format can be found in folders "output/figures" and "output/appendix_tables", respectively. <br>