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: zip-file. 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," 2022: 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