ileanamarroquin / latin-america-remittances-iv-model

The context of this repo is sharing the empiric work presented as my MPA thesis on July 2023. The research is title is: "Remittances vs Public Finance Capacity. Impact Assessment in Reducing Income Inequality in Latin America: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis"

Replication Instructions of latin-america-remittances-iv-model

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What this project does and why is usefull?

This README.rmd file provides an overview of the RStudio project for the Latin America Remittances IV Model. The main objective of this project is to provide a reproducible and transparent framework for the thesis presented as a voluntary research performed the past summer. Such file is available MARROQUIN ILEANA THESIS.pdf in the /documentation folder. The abstract and the main results used for Chapter 5 are available in the 2_thesis_IV_modeling_2SLS_GMM.Rmd file.

Data

The data for this project is obtained from two sources: the World Bank's World Inequality Database via library(WDI) and the WIID-UNU database. The data is processed and cleaned using the dplyr and tidyr packages. The processed data is saved in the /1_processed_data folder.

Documentation

The data and thesis document references for this project is located in the documentation directory.

Code

The code used for the analysis for this project is located in the 2_code directory. The code is organized into a series of .R and .Rmd scripts, each of which performs a specific task.

Likewise, note that every script starts with a small README section where a brief description of the objective, inputs and outputs are enlisted.

How to Reproduce the Results?

• Fork/Clone this repository to your server

• The folders and the scripts have a number in the beginning to indicate the execution order, therefore start in /1_processed_data and open the /1_wiid_dataframe.R as the initial script.

• Before running the initial script and the following scripts, make sure your cloned repository root is effectively addressed according to the location of the cloned repository. Notice that the directory uses the library(here) across the scripts.

• Run /1_wiid_dataframe.R; then follow numerical execution order until arriving to the main modeling and analysis script Rmd file 2_thesis_IV_modeling_2SLS_GMM.Rmd , winch is the main piece used for the impact assessment champter of the thesis.