btskinner / bb_holc_rep

Replication files for Digital redlining: the relevance of 20th century housing policy to 21st century broadband access and education

This repository contains the replication files for

Skinner, B.T., Levy, H., and Burtch, T. (2021). Digital redlining: the relevance of 20th century housing policy to 21st century broadband access and education. Annenberg Institute at Brown University (EdWorkingPaper: 21-471). Doi: 10.26300/q9av-9c93

To run

Clone the project repository, cd into project directory, and run the makefile:

git clone https://github.com/btskinner/bb_holc_rep.git
cd ./bb_holc_rep
make

Or, after cloning the repository, cd into the ./scripts/r directory, and run the R scripts one by one in the following order:

1. check_packages.R
2. make_data_acs.R
3. make_data_fcc.R
4. make_data_geo.R
5. clean_data_acs.R
6. clean_data_fcc.R
7. analysis_acs.R
8. analysis_fcc.R
9. make_figures.R

Figures and tables found in the final paper can be built from figtab.md after completing all scripts and running from the docs directory:

pandoc figures.md \
--read=markdown \
--write=latex \
--output=./figures.pdf \
--resource-path=..:../figures