oraziotorre/lesotho-school-entry-replication

Replication of the main empirical results, figures, and tables from the paper "Age at School Entry and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Lesotho" using Julia. # Lesotho School Entry Replication This project was developed as part of the *Computational Economics* course at Collegio Carlo Alberto. **Full Project Documentation:** oraziotorre.github.io ## Overview This repository replicates the results from the paper: > De Neve, J.-W., Moshoeshoe, R., & Bor, J. (2026). > *Age at School Entry and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Lesotho.* > American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. The paper studies how the age at which children start primary school affects education, labor market outcomes, health, and demographic outcomes in Lesotho, using a regression discontinuity design based on a school entry cutoff. The goal of this project is to reproduce the main empirical results, figures, and tables using Julia. The original replication package is available on OpenICPSR. --- ## Project Structure ``` lesotho-school-entry-replication/ │ ├── images/ │ ├── replication-package/ │ ├── LesothoSchoolEntryReplication.jl/ │ │ ├── Project.toml │ │ ├── Manifest.toml │ │ │ │ │ ├── src/ │ │ │ ├── LesothoSchoolEntryReplication.jl │ │ │ ├── run_all.jl │ │ │ ├── figures.jl │ │ │ ├── tables.jl │ │ │ └── utils.jl │ │ │ │ │ ├── test/ │ │ │ └── runtests.jl │ │ │ │ │ └── output/ │ │ ├── figures/ │ │ └── tables/ │ │ │ └── original-replication/ │ ├── report_files/ ├── report.qmd ├── report.html │ ├── .gitignore └── README.md ``` --- ## Installation 1. Install Julia (recommended version: **1.12.6**) and verify: ```bash julia --version ``` 2. Clone the repository and run Julia: ```bash git clone github.com cd lesotho-school-entry-replication julia ``` ## Running the Replication: 1. Activate the environment: ```julia using Pkg Pkg.activate("./replication-package/LesothoSchoolEntryReplication.jl") ``` 2. Install the dependencies: ```julia Pkg.instantiate( …