felixholub / temperature-mortality-replication

Replication Exercise: "Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century"

Description

This repository contains the code and data for Problem Set 7 of the ENEC course at Goethe University Frankfurt. The data is taken from the paper:

Barreca, A., Clay, K., Deschenes, O., Greenstone, M., & Shapiro, J. S. (2016). Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the US Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the Twentieth Century. Journal of Political Economy, 124(1), 105–159. https://doi.org/10.1086/684582

The code replicates Figures 2 of the Paper.

Installation

1. Clone the repository or download and extract the ZIP-file under the green "Code" button on the top right.
2. Keep the code (*.do) and data (*.dta) in the same folder.
3. In Stata, execute prepare.do OR manually install from SSC: ssc install reghdfe and ssc install coefplot.

Usage

To create Figure 2: Execute figure2.do.