Replication Data and Code for “Political Institutions and the Fiscal Transmission of Resource Windfalls”
Description
This replication package accompanies the manuscript “Political Institutions and the Fiscal Transmission of Resource Windfalls.” The package contains the processed municipal panel, political-institutional indicators, Stata code, and supporting documentation required to reproduce the empirical results reported in the manuscript and its online appendix. The analysis covers 320 Chilean municipalities over the period 2009–2023. The replication files reproduce the descriptive evidence, baseline dynamic panel system-GMM estimates, political heterogeneity analyses, spatial econometric models based on alternative connectivity matrices, robustness checks, tables, and figures. The political indicators were constructed and harmonized from official municipal election records, while the fiscal and socioeconomic variables were assembled from publicly available administrative sources. The package is organized around a master.do file and modular Stata scripts covering data preparation, variable construction, baseline estimation, spatial models, robustness exercises, and the production of tables and figures. The README file and the documentation folder describe the directory structure, variable definitions, original data sources, software requirements, and execution sequence. The repository-level license is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The Stata code is additionally released under the MIT License, as specified in the included LICENSE.txt file. Authors: Mauricio Oyarzo and Dusan Paredes.
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Steps to reproduce
1. Download and extract the ZIP archive, preserving the original directory structure. 2. Open README.md and review the description of the files, variables, data sources, software requirements, and directory structure. 3. Open master.do in Stata. If required by the local computing environment, define the project root directory at the beginning of the file. 4. Install any user-written Stata packages identified in README.md before executing the replication. 5. Run master.do. The master file executes the numbered scripts contained in the code folder in the required sequence. These scripts prepare the analysis files, construct the variables, estimate the baseline and spatial models, perform the robustness exercises, and generate the reported results. 6. The processed municipal panel and political indicators required for the analysis are included in the data folder. The resulting tables and figures are saved in their corresponding output folders. 7. Compare the generated outputs with the tables and figures reported in the manuscript and its online appendix. The replication should be executed from an extracted copy of the archive rather than directly from within the compressed ZIP file.