AphraChen/Reproduction-of-Mining-and-Local-Corruption-in-Africa-

Main code repository with data for "Mining and Local Corruption in Africa" # Reproduction Project: Mining and Local Corruption in Africa (Knutsen et al. 2018). Revised Reproducation Project Authors: Charlotte Zell, Jane Angar, Zejun Chen. Paper Selected: Knutsen, C. H., Kotsadam, A., Olsen, E. H., & Wig, T. (2017). Mining and local corruption in Africa. American Journal of Political Science, 61(2), 320-334. DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12268 Link: doi.org Original Reproduction Package Link: dataverse.harvard.edu In the "revised reproduction package for - Mining and Local Corruption in Africa - Angar, Chen, Zell - 2022" folder, there are 2 sub-folders: **1. Original Reproduction Package:** It contains the authors' original replication package, which can be downloaded directly from this link: dataverse.harvard.edu. Files included in this folder are: (a) Description of how to buy/access original source data from RMD and Afrobarometer (Access.pdf) (b) Codebook of variables (CodebookMiningAJPS.pdf) (d) Analysis datasets (mininglocal.dta; mininglocal_nw.dta) (e) Analysis code (analysis.do) (f) Description of the geocoding procedure (Geocoding.pdf) (g) Description of the construction of the night-time lights data (Creation of light dataset.pdf) (h) Statetement on restricted data from Afrobarometer (Statement Afrobarometer.docx) (i) Statement on restricted data from SNL Metals & Mining (Statement SNL.pdf) (j) The original readme file (README - original reproduction package.txt) **2. Improvements and Additional Robustness Tests:** It contains our codes for improvements and additional robustness tests. (a) Improvement 1- Analysis code in R for Table 1-3 (MainReproductionCodeTables.dta) - We successfully translated the majority of STATA codes to R for Table 1-3; however, we failed to reproduce the F-statistics and p-values for Table 1 and the F-statistics for Table 3. This remains an area …