Replication of Duflo, Kremer & Robinson (2011) — "Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya" (AER, 101(6)).
# Replication: Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer
## 📌 Project Overview
This project replicates key empirical results from the paper:
**Duflo, Kremer, and Robinson (2011)**
*Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya*
Published in the American Economic Review.
The objective is to reproduce:
- Descriptive statistics (Table 1)
- Pre-treatment balance checks (Table 3)
- Main treatment effects from the Randomized Controlled Trial (Table 4)
All analyses are implemented in **Stata 16**.
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## 📂 Data
The replication uses the following datasets:
- `SAFI_main_dataset_AER.dta` → Main dataset (RCT analysis)
- `time_buying_fert_AER.dta` → Fertilizer purchase timing
Make sure these files are located in your working directory before running the code.
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## ⚙️ Requirements
- Stata 16 or anover version
- Basic knowledge of econometrics and RCTs
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## ▶️ How to Run
1. Open Stata
2. Set the working directory:
```stata
cd "your/path/to/project"