chinafdi

Replication data for “China's Rise - Threat or Opportunity? The Pacifying Effect of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on American Threat Perceptions” Online Appendix

Repository Layout

This repository is split into several folders: code, figures, and results.

• code: This folder contains all scripts needed to be run in order to generate all data.
• figures: All R code for replicating the figures in the paper, as well as the resulting pngs.
  • results: Intermediary data created by scripts in the code folder.

Installation

Recreating all tables and figures in this repository requires working installations of [R](Index of /src/base/R-4 All this coded was tested R version 4.1.3 on a Mac Monterey.

R dependencies

All R code uses the following packages: dplyr, tidyverse, lfe, stargazer, broom, marginaleffects, modelsummary, readstata13, scales, foreign, countrycode, quantmod, lmtest, sandwich, matchit, cobalt

Replication

The replication requires the researcher to collect a number of public and private dataset. Information on how to acquire the necessary datasets are listed below.

Public

• ANES | American National Election Studies 2012 and 2020
• County-level unemployment data - Bureau of Labor Statistics
• I collected congressional district level US Census data using CRAN - Package censusapi. You need to get an API key from US Census to use this package.
• County-level manufacturing employment data - County Business Patterns
• Dave Leip’s Atlas - Congressional district level Presidential vote share
• China Trade Shock data - The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States - American Economic Association

Private

• The project includes proprietary data on greenfield foreign direct investment in the United States from Financial Times’ fDi Markets data. More information on how to acquire the necessary dataset is here.
• I have collected local newspaper articles on Chinese greenfield investment announcements using NewsBank’s Access World News. In the appendix, I explain the step-by-step process of how I collected the articles. newsbank folder in code provides the code to scrape the site.
• The project includes proprietary data on mergers and acquisition transactions in the United States from Refinitiv’s SDC Platinum. More information on how to acquire the necessary dataset is here.