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Discriminatory social norms and early childhood development
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Replication data and code for: Deshpande, A., & Ramachandran, R. (2025). Discriminatory social norms and early childhood development. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 238, 107245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107245 Description: This replication package contains the Stata code and datasets used to reproduce results and figures in the published paper. The analysis draws on the 2015–16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) of India, merged with original data on distance from the Vindhyas. Users can either (i) recreate the cleaned dataset from the raw DHS files using the provided scripts, or (ii) directly run the replication do-files to reproduce Tables 1–6 and Figures 2–7. Contents: 1. Data preparation script (prep_data_for_analysis_AD_RR_JEBO_107245.do) 2. Main replication script (Replication_figs_2_6_7_Tables_2_3_4_5_6.do) 3. District-level replication script (replication_Table1_Fig3.do) 4. Final datasets (nfhs_replicationdatafinal.dta, Table1_Fig3_data.dta, and dhscluster_vindhyadist.dta) Source data: NFHS-4 (India 2015–16) from the DHS Program: GPS shapefile – IAGE71FL.ZIP | Geographic covariates – IAGC72FL.ZIP | Birth recode – IABR74DT.ZIP All accessible at https://dhsprogram.com/data/dataset/India_Standard-DHS_2015.cfm?flag=0