Replication files for the paper “Corporate Social Responsibility along the Global Value Chain” by Philipp Herkenhoff, Sebastian Krautheim, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich

This folder contains the do files needed to compute the results of the paper “Corporate Social Responsibility along the Global Value Chain” by Philipp Herkenhoff, Sebastian Krautheim, Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich, Journal of Development Economics (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103236

Data sources and access

• Note that this paper is based on proprietary data which we are not allowed to publish.
• Firm-level data: We use the Prowess data provided by the Centre of Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), which can be accessed on a subscription basis here: https://prowessdx.cmie.com/. We use four datafiles from the Prowess vintage of December 2017: Identity, Equity Ownership Pattern, Products, and Standalone Financial Statements.
• Industry-level data: For the calculation of industry-specific variables, we rely on the World Input-Output Tables and Socio Economic Accounts provided by the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), November 2016 release, published February 2018. The data can be accessed here: https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/valuechain/wiod/wiod-2016-release.
• Other data sources: The World Bank Doing Business India 2009 can be accessed here: https://subnational.doingbusiness.org/en/reports/subnational-reports/india

Replication

The folder “Do files” contains the do files to run the analysis and produce the tables and graphs reported in the paper. Further do files to prepare the data are available upon request.

Contact

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case questions arise:

• Finn Ole Semrau: finn-ole.semrau@ifw-kiel.de, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6894-2577
• Frauke Steglich: frauke.steglich@ifw-kiel.de, https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2380-5946