Microeconometrics Replication Project: González (2013)

Madhurima Chandra

This project seeks to replicate the core results of:

González, Libertad. 2013. "The Effect of a Universal Child Benefit on Conceptions, Abortions, and Early Maternal Labor Supply." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5 (3): 160-88.

Viewing the notebook:

• Recommended: Clone this repository to your local machine, run conda env create -f environment.yml in your shell to create the environment, and access the notebook by launching jupyter lab or jupyter notebook.

• Note that mybinder or nbviewer may run into errors with displaying images and the like.

Project Structure

• auxiliary: hosts the code behind all functions called in the notebook

  • pre_process_datasets.py
  • run_regressions.py
  • generate_tables.py
  • generate_figures.py

• causal_graphs: figures created with Dagitty can be found here

• data: datasets accessed to recreate paper results

• Replication.ipynb

References

• González, Libertad (2013). The Effect of a Universal Child Benefit on Conceptions, Abortions, and Early Maternal Labor Supply. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5 (3): 160-88.

• Eisenhauer, P. (2020). Course project template, HumanCapitalAnalysis, https://github.com/HumanCapitalAnalysis/template-course-project.

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