heuriscode/Consumption_behaviours-and-poverty-traps

Data and script for Gregg et al (XXXX) - Consumption behaviours and poverty traps: A case study of detailed diary data from rural poor smallholder households in Uganda # README FILE FOR: Consumption behaviours and poverty traps: A case study of detailed diary data from rural poor smallholder households in Uganda ## Daniel Gregg, David Just, and Daniel Hill ## Last update: 24 May 2024 This replication package contains the data, code and supplementary materials for the manuscript titled *Consumption behaviours and poverty traps: A case study of detailed diary data from rural poor smallholder households in Uganda.* The files and folders contained in this package include: - **Sticky_consumption_EXP_INC_MAIN.R** reproduces all the main results for the manuscript. The script performs all the necessary steps for the analysis, calling necessary functions and data saved in the data and utilities folder and saving results in the results folder. The script can be executed when through the statistical program R, with the dependent packages downloaded. - **Sticky_consumption_EXP_INC_LOW.R** replicates the analysis conducted in the MAIN script detailed above, but for a ‘low’ performance expected income model. This is a robustness check to ensure the results are stable for different specifications of expected and unexpected income, and the results are presented in the appendix and are saved in the result folder with \_LOW. - **Sticky_consumption_EXP_INC_HIGH.R** replicates the analysis conducted in the MAIN script detailed above, but for a ‘HIGH’ performance expected income model. = - **Data** contains all the necessary data for the analysis. More details are provided below under the data availability section. - **Utilities** contains all the necessary functions to run the analysis scripts. More details are provided below in the utilities section. - **Results** contains all results printed by the main analysis scripts. These results are also presented in the manuscript for the main model, as well as the appendix for the high and low expected income models. More details are provided below. - **Diary survey example.docx** provid …