Applied Examples

These are not intended to be complete sets of replication files. Rather, they contain the materials related to statacons. These consist primarily of SConstructs and SConscripts, as well as auxilliary files, including Stata profiles (profile.do), configuration files (config_local.ini, config_project.ini), etc.

• Shumway and Wilson, JPubE, 2022: appliedExample.zip. This is the Applied Example presented in Section 4 of the statacons Stata Journal paper. Features used:

  • Downloads and unzips zip-file from Dropbox
  • Conduct dataprep (build) and analysis separately, transfers cleaned datasets from build to analysis
  • Collaboration using GitHub and the SCons cache
  • Parallel builds (currently not available in Statacons, requires SCons in terminal)

• Bakhtiar, Guiteras, Levinsohn and Mobarak, "Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem," JDE, 2023: BGD-San-Soc-statacons.7z. Features used:

  • Collaboration using GitHub and the SCons cache
  • Cache with cache disabled by default
  • Hierarchical build, i.e., "master" SConstruct with several SConscripts
  • Post outputs to Overleaf
  • Compiling a PDF from LaTeX

• We produced our web tutorial using statacons together with Stata's dyntext command. See Example 1: dyndoc on the Statacons and literate programming wiki page. Features used:

  • Integration of statacons with literate programming, specifically dyndoc and dyntext

• introExample.texdoc creates Sec-IntroByExample.tex for the main paper (Section 2, "Introduction by example"). See Example 2: texdoc on the Statacons and literate programming wiki page. Features used:

  • Integration of statacons with literate programming, specifically texdoc (Jann, Stata Journal, 2016)
  • Post outputs to Overleaf
  • Compiling a PDF from LaTeX