Replication Package for "Trust and State Effectiveness: The Political Economy of Compliance"

This provides information on the data used in the paper titled “Trust and State Effectiveness: The Political Economy of Compliance” by Tim Besley and Sacha Dray, and steps to replicate its results.

DATA SOURCES:

Raw datasets needed for replication are in the folder "data/raw".

1/ WVS_Trend_v2_0. Dta World Values Survey dataset from Haerpfer, C., Inglehart, R., Moreno, A., Welzel, C., Kizilova, K., Diez-Medrano J., M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen et al. (eds.). 2022. World Values Survey Trend File (1981-2022) Cross-National Data-Set. Madrid, Spain & Vienna, Austria: JD Systems Institute & WVSA Secretariat. Version 2.0.0, doi:10.14281/18241.23.

2/  ZA7503_v2-0-0.dta European Value Survey from EVS Trend File 1981-2017. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA7503 Data file Version 3.0.0, doi:10.4232/1.14021.

3/ StateCapacityDataset_v1.dta from Jonathan K. Hanson and Rachel Sigman. "Leviathan's Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research.'' Journal of Politics 83(4): 1495-1510, October 2021. doi.org/10.1086/715066.

4/ incomegroup.dta : World Bank country classification by income group (FY2020), which can be accessed here: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups (access in 2021).

5/ countrycodes.dta cross-walk for 2- and 3-digit country codes

6/ UK_C19_cohorts: dataset from the COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Cohort Studies.

- Centre for Longitudinal Studies. (2020). COVID-19 survey in five national longitudinal cohort studies: Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps, 1970 British Cohort Study and 1958 National Child Development Study, 2020–2021 [data collection].

SOFTWARE VERSION:

Stata SE 15.1. This version is configured in the set_environment.do. Operating System: Windows 11 Pro

PACKAGES REQUIRING INSTALLATION:

Stata packages : grstyle; estout; texdoc; ranktest; palettes; colrspace; unique; gr0034; _gwtmean; ftools; reghdfe; ivreg2; ivreghdfe.

ESTIMATED RUN-TIME:  15 minutes.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR RUNNING REPLICATION CODE:

Step 1: Unzip replication-package.zip.

In ".../replication/code" you will find the following do-files:

0. !master.do : do-file which sets root and runs all do-files below.

1. ZA7503_EVS_WVS_Merge_Syntax.do: do-file to produce Integrated_values_surveys_1981-2021.dta from the EVS and WVS datasets.

2. IVS_clean.do : do-file to produce IVS_clean.dta based on step 1, and merged with StateCapacity and income group classification

3. Tab1.do : reproduces Table 1: Trust and compliance with COVID-19 guidelines in the UK

4. Tab2.do : reproduces Table 2: Trust and compliance in the Integrated Values Survey

5. Tab3.do : reproduces Table 3: Trust and compliance in the Integrated Values Survey, IV results

6. Fig1.do : reproduces Figure 1: A positive cross-country relationship between two measures of trust and compliance

7. set_environment.do : set environment for all do-files, including software version.

Step 2: open !master.do and set global root. The user should input the path to the replication folder

where, in place of C:/example/root, the path to the location of the replication folder is put.

Step 3: Run !master.do. All output will be created and saved in the folder ".../replication/output". If the

output folder was not previously created, it will be created by the code in “set_environment.do”. Each

individual exhibit can be created separately by running its corresponding do-file.