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.
- Original Datasets and Dictionary Files (under /nlsy_2019) are downloaded from the NLSY investigator
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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
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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
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master.do: runs all .do files using one click
Debasmita Das (Purdue University, 2019)