Replication archive for Raze (2022)

This repository contains replication materials for Raze (2022), "Voting rights and the resilience of Black turnout," Economic Inquiry, 60(3), 1127–1141.

Software requirements

1. R
2. RStudio

Instructions

1. Download version 5.0 of the "Cumulative CCES Common Content" file (cumulative_2006-2019.dta) from the Harvard Dataverse.

2. Move cumulative_2006-2019.dta to the Data folder.

3. Open the R project shelby_county_voting_replication_replication.Rproj in RStudio.

4. Install the groundhog package by running the following in the RStudio console:

install.packages("groundhog")

5. Set up a local directory for packages by running the following in the RStudio console and entering "OK" when prompted:

groundhog::get.groundhog.folder()

6. Replicate the analysis by running the following in the RStudio console:

if (!require("callr")) install.packages("callr")
callr::rscript("Scripts/01-cces_data.R")
callr::rscript("Scripts/02-summary_statistics.R")
callr::rscript("Scripts/03-main_analysis.R")

7. Check the Results folder for .tex, .png, and .rds outputs.