NOTES

These files are for replication of the main results in 

Bailey, M. J. & Duquette, N. J. (2014). How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Politics and Economics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity. The Journal of Economic History, 74(2), 351-388. 

Also available as National Bureau of Economic Research working paper No. 19860. Please cite the Journal of Economic History version.

The core files are in Stata (.do and .dta) format.

FOLDERS

"dofile" contains Stata do-files. The "master.do" file calls each of the others in order. You must rename the filepath at the very beginning of the file to point to the folder containing these files for everything to run correctly.

"data" contains source data files.

"temp" is a save location for intermediate data files. It is provided empty for the user's convenience.

"output" is a save location for charts, figures, and log files. It is provided empty for the user's convenience.

URLS

The published paper is at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050714000291

Additional information may be posted at the authors' web sites,

https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/baileymj/

http://www.nicolasduquette.com/