Readme for "Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Increase Migration"

Emily A. Beam, David McKenzie, Dean Yang

Last updated: November 13, 2018

Instructions

1. Unzip any zipped data files in the Data filder
2. Set $path to working directory of your analysis in 0_0_MasterAnalysis_2017.do: Master do-file
3. Run do-files, making sure that you run swap_specification.do and swapspec commands before any analysis files.

• swapspec has 5 arguments: swapspec [dataset] [sample restrictions] [treatment sets] [report p-values]
  • dataset: list dataset (attritfull.dta)
  • sample restrictions: baselineno4145 excludes the 41-45 age group, baseline includes all ages
  • treatment sets: ascending15 is the main option
  • report p-values: nopval for no p-values, or pval

Data files:

File	Purpose
merged_data_public.dta	Public-use data file
roster2013_fup	Roster for 2013 follow-up
FUP2013.dta	2013 follow-up data
attritiondata.dta	Data for attrition tables

Errata:

• Appendix Table 3:
  • Error in statistics significance stars:
    • Column 2: HS Graduate and some college or vocational should not have stars
    • Column 3: HS graduate and some college or vocational should have 1 star
• Appendix Table 2: Coefficient discrepancies in column 1 at the thousandths place
• Appendix Table 9: The coefficients in the last two rows are not correct.
  • A9_AltMigration.do has been revised to drop the variable aa_assign at the beginning of the code. As a result, it will not perfectly replicate Appendix Table A9

Note on translating treatment variables

Code	Treatment
_bb6	Application information (T1)
_bb7	Financial information (T2)
_bb8	Passport information (T3)
_bb9	T1 + T2
_bb10	T1 + T3
_bb11	T2 + T3
_bb1	T1 + T2 + T3 (All Information)
_bb12	T1 + T2 + T4 (Website Assistance)
_bb2	T1 + T2 + T3 + T4 (All Information + Website)
_bb3	T3 + T5 (Only Passport Assistance)
_bb13	T1 + T3 + T5
_bb14	T2 + T3 + T5
_bb4	T1 + T2 + T3 + T5 (All Information + Passport)
_bb5	T1 + T2 + T3 + T4 + T5 ( Full Assistance)

Notes

• There were minor edits to the endline survey made as a result of field testing (v2.7). However, that version is exclusively in Bikol. It is available from the authors upon request

Relevant Files

Original file names

• Baseline survey: 100519_BaselineSurvey_4.0.doc
• Benchmark survey: Benchmark Survey Final Bikol.doc
• Endline survey: Final Survey Draft v2.5_May18.docx
  • Codebook: Final_Survey_Codebook_2.6_May22.xlsx
• 2013 follow-up FinalSurvey_Migrant Follow-Upv0.2.doc
  • This survey was only conducted with a subset of respondents who reported current or pending overseas job offers at endline.

General notes

• Prior to creating the main data analysis files, there were a mess of files containing PII. The container for these is in ~/Dropbox/FacilitatingMigration_June2018/PII_encrypted. Within there are some do-files, which generate merged_data_public, among other files.

• The do-file 0_DataCleaning_RemovePII_Nov2018 uses merged_data_public and creates facilmig_public, which is the initial shared file.

File	Do-file
merged_data_public.dta	Generated by PII_3_Endline.do
FUP2013.dta	Generated by PII_4_2013FUP.do
attritiondata.dta	Generated by PII_5_Attrition.do
facilmig_public.dta	Generated by 0_DataCleaning_RemovePII_Nov2018