btskinner / lowinc_enroll_mrp_rep

Replication files for Skinner and Doyle "Predicting postsecondary attendance by family income in the United States using multilevel regression with poststratification"

This repository contains the replication files for

Skinner, Benjamin T. and Doyle, William R. (forthcoming) Predicting postsecondary attendance by family income in the United States using multilevel regression with poststratification. Economics of Educatoin Review Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3054231

Data

Follow the instructions in ./data/raw/README.md to download all publicly-available data and place it in the correct locations.

You will also need access to an NCES restricted-use data set, which must be obtained through the National Center for Education Statistics.

To run

Clone the project repository and cd into the scripts/r project subdirectory.

git clone https://github.com/btskinner/lowinc_enroll_mrp_rep.git
cd ./lowinc_enroll_mrp_rep/scripts/r

Follow the instructions in ./scripts/r/README.md to replicate the primary and simulated analyses.