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In order to reproduce the analysis in Cody Christensen's piece "Unintended consequences of an accountability test for Master's Degrees Programs," the following steps need to be taken.

First, a user needs to specify a working directory (heretofore called "my_dir"), where analysis scripts and outputs will be stored.

In this directory, the user needs to create the following folders

  • Data
    • raw data
      • acs
      • ipeds
      • scorecard
  • Output

After doing so, the user needs to perform a data extract using the IPUMS data service. The years to retrieve are:

  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019

And the variables to retrieve are:

  • YEAR
  • SAMPLE
  • SERIAL
  • CBSERIAL
  • HHWT
  • CLUSTER
  • STATEFIP
  • STRATA
  • GQ
  • PERNUM
  • PERWT
  • SEX
  • AGE
  • MARST
  • RACE
  • RACED
  • HISPAN
  • HISPAND
  • CITIZEN
  • SCHOOL
  • EDUC
  • EDUCD
  • GRADEATT
  • GRADEATTD
  • DEGFIELD
  • DEGFIELDD
  • DEGFIELD2
  • DEFFIELD2D
  • EMPSTAT
  • EMPSTATD
  • LABFORCE
  • OCC
  • OCCSOC
  • IND
  • INCTOT
  • FTOTINC
  • INCWAGE

Submit the data request.It will take a few minutes for the file to generate; retrieve it, and save it in the "my_dir"/Data/raw data/acs folder described above as "acs_data.csv"

Save "master_analysis.do" and "analysis.zip" to the "my_dir" directory. Open "master_analysis.do" and edit line 14 with the working directory. After doing so, run to generate outputs.