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* This file:    SSreplicationReadme
* Author:       Ken Scheve and David Stasavage
* Date:         October 2008, updated March 2010
* Description:	This file describes the replication archive for "Institutions, 
*		Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run" published in 
*		World Politics
* Contact: 	Email Ken Scheve (kenneth.scheve@yale.edu) or David Stasavage (david.stasavage@nyu.edu)
*		with any questions.
*
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Files:
SSreplicationReadme		This file explains the contents of replication archive.
SSreplication.do		Stata do file that replicates results in Tables 1-5 in the paper.
denmarkintegerseriesrep.dta	Data for Demark analysis in Table 5
ineqlwdrep.dta			Data for Sweden and Netherlands top income analysis in Table 5
iqimpr*.dta			Multiple imputation datasets for analyses in Tables 2, 3 and 4
irelandwagesrep.dta		Data for Ireland analysis in Table 5
ljungbergseriesrep.dta		Data for Sweden wage analysis in Table 5
lydall replication.dta		Data for analysis in Table 1
miest.ado			Stata ado file for analyses in Tables 2, 3 and 4
miest.hlp			Stata help file
misum.ado			Stata ado file for descriptive statistics
OECD 1996 wage data.dta		Data for analysis in Table 1
iqimpl.dta			Annual data for imputation procedures described in electronic appendix. Country codes correspond to states as described below for the imputated datasets.

Data Notes:

For a detailed description of the variable definitions and sources, see online Appendix at:

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ks298/index_files/electronicappendix0608.pdf

Variable names in iqimpr*.dta datasets correspond to full variable names used in paper and appendix:

Top1 - top1la
Top10 - top10la
Top10-1 - top10la_top1la
GDP per capita - mgdppc
Trade Openness - tradedep
Secondary Education Share - secsharel10
Female Participation - fempart
Centralized Wage Bargaining - wcentld
Decentralized Wage Bargaining - wdeccentld
Union Density - totden2
Left Executive - leftgov
Non-Democracy - nondem
Universal Suffrage - funisuf
Centralized Wage Bargaining - wagctl2
period - indicator for each five-year period
year - average year for period
stnum - numerical country code (see codes below)
p* - dummy variables for each period
c* - dummy variables for each country

Country codes:

	state   stnum 
  	USA       2 
 	CAN      20 
	ENG     200 
	IRL     205 
 	NED     210 
      	FRA     220 
 	SUI     225 
 	ESP     230 
 	GER     255 
 	SWE     380 
      	JPN     740 
	AUS     900 
	NZL     920 


