03-structure.md

Structure of the project

Folder by function

Let's start with something easy. Separate folders for each function: code/ and data/

code/
data/

TIER Protocol

• The TIER Protocol is a set of guidelines for organizing reproducible research.

Scripts by function

We will download -> Create a script download_data.do

Paths in scripts

🛑Do not hard-code paths!

copy "$URL" "C:\Users\lv39\Desktop\day1\data\dist_cepii.dta", replace

Why?

Names in scripts

🛑Do not rename data files!

copy "$URL" "C:\Users\lv39\Desktop\day1\data\that_file_from_cepii.dta", replace

Why?

Redo the same thing for other data

• Tender data
• Country codes

Link

Step 3: Stata ¹

Footnotes

1. 🔒Tag: stage3 ↩