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Data and code for "Democracy and Ethnic Favoritism: Evidence from Africa"

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Democracy and Ethnic Favoritism: Evidence from Africa

Data and code for "Democracy and Ethnic Favoritism: Evidence from Africa"

Data

Micro Data

The data for this project is from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) website.

Use the following citation to cite the data:

Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Miriam King and Matthew Sobek. IPUMS-Demographic and Health Surveys: Version 9 [dataset]. IPUMS and ICF, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18128/D080.V9

I use the women, men, and children recodes for this project. The raw data are available in the data/raw folder.

Democracy Data

I use the Polity IV (Marshall et al., 2019) and Democracy-************ Index (Cheibub et al., 2010).

Leaders Ethnicity

Ethnicity data are from Fearon et al. (2007).

Code

To run the code:

  1. Change the mdir variable to your directory
  2. Running the R script 95-make-all.R will create all the data, tables, and figures. Democracy and Ethnic Favoritism: Evidence from Africa

Data and code for "Democracy and Ethnic Favoritism: Evidence from Africa"

Data

Micro Data

The data for this project is from Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) website.

Use the following citation to cite the data:

Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Miriam King and Matthew Sobek. IPUMS-Demographic and Health Surveys: Version 9 [dataset]. IPUMS and ICF, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18128/D080.V9

I use the women, men, and children recodes for this project. The raw data is available in the data/raw folder.

Democracy Data

I use Polity IV (Marshall et al., 2019) and Democracy-************ Index (Cheibub et al., 2010).

Leaders Ethnicity

Ethnicity data is from Fearon et al. (2007).

Code

To run the code:

  1. Change the mdir variable to your directory
  2. Running the R script 95-make-all.R would create all the data, tables, and figures.