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 …