Do Minimum Wage Policies Have Spatial Effects on Rents?

In this project we explore the effect of minimum wage policies on the housing market within metropolitan areas.

How to use

• Data is stored in a Google Drive folder here.

  • Make a local copy of the Google Drive folder.
  • If appropriate, create a juncture link to the datastore in the root of the repo. In windows, run mklink /J "<Root of repo>/drive/" "<Local Google Drive folder>" from the command line.
  • A python 2 compiler is required to run the code in this repo. We recommend to install Anaconda and create a python2 environment.

Repository structure

This repository is organized in stages:

• drive/raw_data hosts large raw files in datastore, and source/raw hosts light raw files
• base makes a base cleaning of the raw data
• derived constructs panels at different geographicals levels
• analysis conducts estimations and counterfactuals
• descriptive makes graphics and tables that describe

Steps within each of these folders can be run separately, provided that dependencies have been compiled.

• To do so, go to the /code/ folder and run python make.py in your Anaconda 2 environment

There is also a run.py file in some of the folders that can be used to run steps in parallel.

Writing the paper

Tex files with code for the paper and slides live in ./paper_slides/. Note that none of these folders is compiled using make nor SCons.

Guidelines

• To enhance GitHub visualization and debugging, we limit lines in Tex files to a maximum of (approximately) 80 characters. As a general rule, we break lines when starting a new sentence. When appropriate, we also break lines following the structure of a sentence. For example,

$$ y_i = a + b x_i + e_i$$
where
$a$ and $b$ are parameters,
$y_i$ is the outcome,
$x_i$ is the independent variable, and
$e_i$ is an error term.

• An exception to the the line-wrapping rule is allowed when adding figures or tables with long filenames.

• Footnotes:

  • Always write a footnote after a punctuation mark (., ,, or ;).
  • Write a % sign at the end of a sentence (to prevent extra spacing) and write the footnote in a new line.
  • E.g.,

  some stuff,%
  \footnote{I am a footnote!}
  and some other stuff.

• We write notes, comments or suggestions after a % sign. Note that any number of spaces and/or commented lines are allowed within paragraphs. E.g., the below is compiled as part of the same paragraph:

  This is a bold claim about the identification of this paper.
  % SH: I'm not sure if identification is so clear, maybe we want to
  %   search for supporting papers.
  An the paragraph continues with some other stuff here.

• Use oxford comma.

• To cite a specific section, appendix, table, or figure use caps. E.g., Section \ref{sec:sec_name} or Appendix Table \ref{tab:tab_name}.

  • When the reference is not specific do not use caps. E.g., The following section shows that .. or .. according to the table ..

• To cite math or an equation do \eqref{eq:eq_name} or equation \eqref{eq:eq_name} when appropriate.

  • Equations are part of a paragraph, use punctuations marks around them when appropriate

Editors

• For using VS code:

  • Install LaTeX Workshop extension.
  • Set editor rulers at 80 and 120 characters as in here.

• For using TexStudio:

  • Set TexStudio to break lines for you by going to Option > Configure TexStudio > Advanced Editor. Set Line Wrapping to Hard Line Wrap after Max. Characters, and Maximal Characters to 90.