NLSY - Permanent Income Risk Estimation

This repository contains STATA codes that I wrote for an RA Assignment under Prof. Trevor Gallen (Fall 2019). In this project, I used data from the NLSY (National Longitudinal Survey Data) to estimate the contribution of motherhood to the size of permanent income risk.

Data and Stata Files

• Original Datasets and Dictionary Files (under /nlsy_2019) are downloaded from the NLSY investigator

Code

• dataclean.do: Loads the raw dataset, reads in the dictionary file, keeps variables of interest, renames variables, constructs variables, cleans data and save working data.

  • Output: nlsy_2019/nlsy_working.dta
  • We can get the working data by running the dataclean.do file

• incvariance.do: Estimates contribution of motherhood to the size of permanent income shocks

  • Data used: nlsy_2019/nlsy_working.dta
  • Output: nlsy_2019/residual.dta
  • Deflate nominal income variables using personal consumption expenditure, estimate residual income by performing regression, estimate variance of the permanent income shocks

• master.do: runs all .do files using one click

Author

Debasmita Das (Purdue University, 2019)