Duflo-2001

This archive contains the shareable data and code used in the reanalysis of Duflo (2001), "Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment."

Data

The main data file, from the 1995 Intercensal survey (SUPAS), is not contained in this repository. It can however be found here.

The reanalysis also uses the 2005 SUPAS and 2011-14 and 2017-19 SUSENAS survey data sets. The 2005 SUPAS data at IPUMS is used for the first. The SUSENAS data was obtained through the Harvard library system. I do not have permission to repost the extracts for either of these surveys here.

The "Regency-level vars" files contain figures on population, school attendance, planned school construction, and water and sanitation spending. The Duflo (2001) versions of the variables, which have been used in many studies, are here copied from the public data archive of Ashraf et al. (2020). The new versions carry the suffix "new". Images of the government documents they were reconstructed from are in the "Printed sources" folder.

Regencies and municipality boundaries in Indonesia have changed over time, mostly through subdivision, occasionally through merger. This complicates linking regency-level data from the 1971 census and mid-1970s presidential directives to the follow-ups in 1995, 2005, 2011-14, and 2017-19. IPUMS helpfully provides shapefiles that modern database and GIS software can use to make the linkages. The concordances folder contains concordances linking the 1995 coding to the 2005, 2011-14, and 2017-19 codings. The 1970s data are manually coded with respect to 1995. Notes in "Baseline variable reconstruction.xlsx" in the "Regency-level vars" folder document complications in this coding, including a few cases where the original and new differ.

Code

"Duflo 2001.do" generates all the results, except that "de Chaisemartin and d'Haultfoeuille 2017 simulation.do" produces Table G-1.

Output

The output folder contains figures and tables produced by the code, in PNG and RTF formats.

The .rtf files correspond to the tables as follows:

• Table 1: "DID2x2.rtf" (except column is copied directly from Duflo (2001))
• Table 2: "RF1995 yeduc.rtf"
• Table 3: "RF1995 part lhwage.rtf"
• Table 4: "TSLSyeduc 1995.rtf"
• Table 5: "RFPost-1995 yeduc.rtf"
• Table 6: "RFPost-1995 part lhwage.rtf"
• Table 7: "TSLSyeduc Post-1995.rtf"
• Table C-1: "TSLSyeduc 1995 by birth year.rtf" (except columns 1 and 4 copied from Duflo (2001))
• Table D-1: "RFAll yeduc.rtf"
• Table D-2: "RFAll part lhwage.rtf"
• Table D-3: "TSLSyeduc All.rtf"
• Table E-1: "TSLSprimary Post-1995.rtf"
• Table F-1: "cic.rtf"
• Table G-1: "CH.rtf"

The .png files correspond to the figures as follows:

• Figure 1: "RF1995 yeduc spline.png"
• Figure 2: "RF1995 part lhwage spline.png"
• Figure 3: "TSLSyeduc 1995.png"
• Figure 4: "Attrition check.png"
• Figure 5: "RFPost-1995 yeduc spline.png"
• Figure 6: "RFPost-1995 part lhwage spline.png"
• Figure 7: "TSLSyeduc Post-1995.png"
• Figure 8: "DIDinCDF.png"
• Figure 9: "CDFshiftkink.png"
• Figure 10: "RFAll yeducp primary spline.png"
• Figure A-1: "hetcheck.png"
• Figure B-1: "weightsim.png"
• Figure D-1: "RFAll yeduc spline.png"
• Figure D-2: "RFAll part lhwage spline.png"
• FIgure D-3: "TSLSyeduc All.png"
• Figure E-1: "TSLSprimary Post-1995.png"
• Figure F-1: "cic.png"