do file for Rice Specialization and Young Women’s Labour Exclusion
Description
This Stata do-file reproduces the empirical analysis for the study on rice specialization and female youth NEET in African rice economies. It imports the harmonized country-year dataset, prepares the panel structure, constructs the main variables and interaction terms, defines the estimation samples, and runs the dynamic panel models using two-step System GMM. The code includes the preferred specification, alternative institutional specifications, sensitivity checks with male NEET, deeper lag structures, reduced instruments, year-dummy controls, price-channel checks, and selected robustness diagnostics. It also computes marginal effects for institutional and political moderators and generates the figures used to interpret the heterogeneity of the relationship between rice intensity and female NEET. The do-file is intended to allow full replication of the main tables, diagnostic outputs, and marginal-effect figures reported in the manuscript.
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Steps to reproduce
The data used in this study come from publicly available sources, including FAOSTAT, the World Development Indicators, ILOSTAT, CHIRPS, ReSAKSS, and the Worldwide Governance Indicators.