Emerson Schryver's ECO375 Project

This repository contains the code and resources for the ECO375 project developed by Emerson Schryver. The project focuses on analyzing the relationship between school funding equality and intergenerational mobility across American counties. The analysis utilizes data from the Equality of Opportunity Project and the US Census Bureau's Annual Survey of School System Finances.

File Structure

• data/: Contains datasets used in the analysis.
• replication_pkg/: Contains Stata scripts and logs for replication of results.
• paper/: Contains the research paper and related documents.
• do_files/ : Contains Stata do-files for data processing and analysis.

Data Sources

• online_table2-2.dta: Data from the Equality of Opportunity Project.
• elsec01t.csv: Data from the US Census Bureau's Annual Survey of School System Finances.

Stata Scripts

Data cleaning:

• load_county_expd.do: Loads and processes county expenditure from the school finance data.
• inequality_metrics.do: Calculates county-level inequality/segregation metrics
• load_controls.do: Loads and processes control variables for the analysis.

Regressions and tables:

• summary_stats.do: Generates summary statistics for the dataset.
• treatment_prediction.do: Predicts treatment assignment based on potential control variables.
• multivariable_regressions.do: Runs main multivariable regressions to analyze the relationship between school funding equality and intergenerational mobility.
• interaction_regression.do: Runs regression models with interaction terms to explore heterogeneous effects.

Please contact me at emerson.schryver@mail.utoronto.ca for any questions related to this project.