This repository contains Stata .do files for my comment on "The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment", Atwood (2022).
To combine my code with the data, first download this repository, then download the original replication package and extract the folder 'Replication_Files' to the directory 'data/'. This requires signing up for an ICPSR account. You also need to download the ACS data (Ruggles et al. 2023); see IPUMS instructions below. This requires signing up for an IPUMS account.
To rerun the analyses, run the file run.do using Stata (version 15).
Note that you need to set the path in run.do on line 2, to define the location of the folder that contains this README.
Required Stata packages are included in 'code/libraries/stata/', so that the user does not have to download anything and the replication can be run offline. The file code/_config.do tells Stata to load packages from this location.
Figures and tables are saved in 'output/'; that directory is created by code/_config.do.
It takes approximately 25 hours to run the code: 3 hours for table2_mw.do and 22 hours for eventstudy.do. It helps to close web browsers to free up memory.
IPUMS instructions:
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Samples:
2017 ACS 5yr
2012 ACS 5yr
2007 ACS 3yr
2000-2004 ACS
1990: 5% state
1980: 5% state
1970: 1% state fm1 and 1% state fm2
1960: 5% -
Variables:
Household -> Technical: CPI99
Household -> Geographic: REGION, STATEFIP
Person -> Demographic: SEX, AGE, BIRTHYR
Person -> Race, ethnicity, and nativity: RACE, BPL
Person -> Education: EDUC
Person -> Work: EMPSTAT, LABFORCE, UHRSWORK
Person -> Income: FTOTINC, INCWAGE, POVERTY -
Case selections:
AGE: 25-60
RACE: 1-2
BPL: 001-056
Save the data and .do files to 'data/', and name them usa_00003.dat and usa_00003.do.