This repository contains the code and data from my replication of "The Long Term Benefits of Vaccination Campaigns: Evidence from Measles", Atwood and Pearlman (2023).

There are three sources of data. First, I use Mexican census data to measure adult economic outcomes. To access this data, apply for an account from IPUMS, then run the following query:

• country: Mexico
• years: 1970, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2010, 2015
• variables:
  • household: geo1_mx (state), urban
  • person: age, sex, marst, nativity, bplmx, yrschool, lit, empstat, inctot, incearn

Save the xml file in 'data/' as 'ipumsi_00025.xml'. Note that the IPUMS extract includes an .R file with functions to read the data: read_ipums_ddi(), which reads an .xml file, and read_ipums_micro(), which reads the micro data. You first need to install the R library ipumsr.

Second, I use CPI data from INEGI to adjust for inflation. Download the CSV file here (years 1969-2023).

Third, I hand-collect disease data from PDFs of the annual epidemiology bulletins. For this replication, I collected data on measles, syphilis, tetanus, and pertussis.

1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978

The latter two datasets are included in 'data/'.

To rerun the analyses, execute the R script run.r. Note that you need to set the path in run.r on line 10 to define the location of the folder that contains this script.