This repository contains Stata .do files for my reanalysis of "General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence From Kenya", Egger et al. (2022).

To combine my code with the data, first download this repository, then download the original replication package (link to zip file) and extract the files to the directory 'data/', so we have 'data/ecta200500-sup-0002-dataandprograms/replication_materials/'. The replication package is available on the article website under 'Supporting Information'; the article is currently open access, so institutional access is not required.

To run the code, you need to create (or add to) a profile.do file. This file should be located in the 'personal/' directory, which you can locate using Stata's sysdir command. You need to create a global ge_dir with the path of the replication files. Specifically, add the following line to profile.do, filling in the location of the folder that contains this README:

global ge_dir "[location of this replication archive]/data/ecta200500-sup-0002-dataandprograms/replication_materials"

There are directory path errors in the Egger et al. replication package that you need to correct manually.

• move the directory 'replication_materials/analysisdata/' into 'replication_materials/code', and rename it 'data', so that we have 'replication_materials/code/data/'.
• move the directory 'replication_materials/rawdata/' into 'replication_materials/code', so that we have 'replication_materials/code/rawdata/'.

I include a version of global_runGPS.do in 'code/' that instructs Stata to not estimate spatial standard errors, since the GPS data is not publicly available. I also include a version of GE_global_setup.do that fixes directory errors. The user does not need to change anything.

Two datasets are missing, which I include in 'data/'. These are 'GE_Market-Survey_EL1_PUBLIC.dta' and 'GE_HH-Survey-EL1_PUBLIC.dta'. You need to unzip and move them into "replication_materials/code/rawdata/".

To rerun the analyses, run the file run.do using Stata (version 15). Note that you need to set the path in run.do on line 2, to define the location of the folder that contains this README. Required Stata packages are included in 'code/libraries/stata/', so that the user does not have to download anything and the replication can be run offline. The file code/_config.do tells Stata to load packages from this location.

Figures and tables are saved in 'output/'; that directory is created by code/_config.do. It takes approximately 1 hour to run the code using Stata-SE.