Paper, replication code, and data sources for "Absence: Electoral Cycles and Teacher Absenteeism in India", conditionally accepted at British Journal of Political Science.
Clean data I can share can be found at the British Journal of Political Science Dataverse site. See the Data Sources section for more information on accessing all the data.
All code is also available on Github at https://github.com/eeemda/absence-bjps
This repository assumes the folllowing folder structure:
.../scripts: All scripts are saved here..../data/raw: All raw data that is called in.../scriptsis stored here.../data/clean: All cleaned data is saved here..../data/output/tables: All tables for analysis are saved here.../data/output/figures: All figures for analysis are saved here.../data/output/text: All text for analysis is saved here.
There are .keep files in each folder that will create them locally if the repository is cloned.
Unfortunately I do not have permission to share any of the files used in this paper, but they are publicly available for interested users to download and replicate the results in the paper. The paper's dataverse is at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WSNNIE
- District Information System for Education School Report Cards
- I provide a cleaned file at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WSNNIE
- Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS)
- Further details can be found at the IHDS website
- Assembly Constituency Elections and Affidavit Data
- Assembly Constituency Maps
- I provided a cleaned file of the crosswalk at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WSNNIE