Replicate MHE Table 4.1.1 and Figure 4.1.1

What this repo does

We replicate Table 4.1.1 and Figure 4.1.1 from Mostly Harmless Econometrics using a reproducible research workflow.

Our weapons of choice are:

• Snakemake to manage the build and dependencies
• R for statistical analysis

How to Build this repo

If you have Snakemake and R installed, navigate your terminal to this directory.

Installing Missing R packages

To ensure all R libraries are installed, type

snakemake install_packages

into a your terminal and press RETURN.

If you modify the packages used in this repo, you should rerun this command to store package updates in the REQUIREMENTS.txt.

Building the Output

Type:

snakemake all

into a your terminal and press RETURN

See HELP.txt for explanation of what the Snakemake Rules are doing.

Install instructions

Installing R

• Install the latest version of R by following the instructions here.
  • You can ignore the RStudio instructions for the purpose of this project.

Installing Snakemake

This project uses Snakemake to execute our research workflow. You can install snakemake as follows:

• Install Snakemake from the command line (needs pip, and Python)

  pip install snakemake
  

  • If you haven't got Python installed click here for instructions

• Windows and old Mac OSX users: you may need to manually install the datrie package if you are getting errors. Using conda, this seems to work best:

  conda install datrie
  

Suggested Citation:

Deer, Lachlan, 2019. "Replication of Angrist and Krueger (1991) : Table 4.1.1 and Figure 4.1.1 from Mostly Harmless Econometrics.