Progressive but Impoverishing: The Distributional Incidence and Compensation of Nigeria's Petrol Subsidy Removal
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This replication package accompanies the article “Progressive but Impoverishing: A Demand-System Analysis of the Distributional Incidence and Compensation of Nigeria’s Petrol Subsidy Removal.” It contains the processed data and Stata code required to reproduce the paper’s principal empirical results. The package combines five waves of Nigeria’s General Household Survey–Panel (2010/11–2023/24) with state-by-month retail price data from the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. The four self-contained analysis datasets cover: (i) the pooled household-level estimation sample used for the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System; (ii) the 2018/19 pre-reform welfare and poverty baseline; (iii) the 2023/24 post-reform validation sample; and (iv) a monthly state-level price panel covering 2016–2025. Key variables include household expenditure and demographic characteristics, energy and food budget shares, commodity prices, per-capita consumption, and estimation-sample indicators. The supplied Stata programs reproduce the demand and price elasticities, compensating-variation estimates, distributional-incidence and Kakwani measures, poverty effects, compensation simulations, robustness analysis, and Figures 1–6 reported in the paper. The package uses final analysis datasets and therefore does not require the original raw survey files. Execution requires Stata 16.1 or later and the quaids, conindex, and glcurve community-contributed commands. All household data are secondary and de-identified.
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- Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-AlikeEbonyi State, Abakaliki