This project is the research component for my Master of Arts in Economics degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

See the output document here.

Requirements

I used Stata 17.3. Earlier versions of Stata may work.

The POF data uses fixed-width columns and comes with an R script for conversion into .rds files. I include here an R script to convert the .rds files into .dta.

I used the pdfathesis package provided by the MUN Math department, see MUN - Thesis Help for more information.

The following Stata packages are needed:

• the aidsills command by Lecocq & Robin;
• the booktabs command from booktabs used to export the summary statistics tables;
• the grc1leg command by Vince Wiggins used to generate combined graphs with a single legend;
• the sepscatter command by Kit Baum used to generate graphs with one line for each value of a discrete variable.

Install them with

ssc install aidsills
net install booktabs, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daniel-alves-fernandes/booktabs/main/")
net install grc1leg, from(http://www.stata.com/users/vwiggins/)
ssc install sepscatter

Setting up the paths

Edit the Dropbox.ado file and replace the path with the repository path. Copy this file into the .ado source you use for Stata ("C:/Users/<your user>/ado/plus/" should work).

Running

Run the aaaMUN/SUPERVISION/2022/Clara/convert_datasets_to_dta.R script. I used RStudio. This should generate .dta files inside the aaaMUN/SUPERVISION/2022/Clara/Data/Dados_20210304 directory.

Type

cd "path/to/do/file"
texdoc do "ClaraMAEssaydraft"

into the Stata console.

The output .tex files will be generated into "aaaMUN/SUPERVISION/2022/Clara". Run pdflatex + Bibtex + Maketex on ClaraMAEssaydraft<DDMonYYYY>.tex.