Cultural Transmission and Socialization Spillovers in Education

Vincent Boucher, Carlo L. Del Bello, Fabrizio Panebianco, Thierry Verdier and Yves Zenou

The data is available for a fee (and under conditions). See: https://data.cpc.unc.edu/projects/2/view

Replication Files:

Main Files

• allfunction.R: It's an R script collecting all of the functions called by the other scripts. This script does not have to be launch manually. It is launched by the other scripts.

• import.do: This do-file has to be lauched FIRST. It keeps the relevant variables from the original datasets and merges them in a single file.

• children.R: This Rscript has to be launched SECOND. It maximizes the joint likelihood P(G,s). Estimates are saved in the file "outestim_partial.RData". Produces Table 1--4.

• parents_clusters.R: This Rscript has to be launched THIRD. It performs OLS estimates, with bootstrapped SE for the parents' model. It uses "outestim_partial.RData" as input. The overall results are saved in "outestim_final.RData". Produces Table 5 and Figure 2--3.

• policy.R: This Rscript has to be launched FOURTH. It performs counterfactual policy simulations. It uses "outestim_final.RData" and the results are saved in "total_withpolicy.RData". Produces Figures 5--7.

Robustness analysis

• "additional_tables.R": Produces Figures C.1 and C.2

• "modelfit.R": Homophily fit. Produces Figure 4 and Table C.3.

• "parents_het.R": Finite mixture model. Produces Tables C.1 and C.2