Replication package for "Why do people persist in sea-level rise threatened coastal regions? Empirical evidence on risk aversion and place attachment"

Steps to replicate the tables and figures in “Why do people persist in sea-level rise threatened coastal regions? Empirical evidence on risk aversion and place attachment”

by Ivo Steimanis, Matthias Mayer and Björn Vollan

General information:

• Instructions for replication of the results using Stata. All do-files were created in Stata 16.
• There are 4 folders (DO-FILES, DTA-FILES, OUTPUT, XLS-FILES), in the replication package. Copy these folders to your computer in a common directory

Do-files:

• In the DO-FILES folder run the “00_master.do” to replicate the results reported in the main manuscript and the supplementary materials. The results will be saved in the OUTPUT folder. All additional Stata packages will be automatically installed.
• “01_merge_generate.do” merges the different datasets and creates additional variables using in the analysis
• “02_analysis.do” provides the code to replicate all figures and tables reported in the main manuscript and supplementary materials

Data sets:

• “bd_combine.dta”: cleaned survey data from Bangladesh
• “vn_combine.dta”: cleaned survey data from Vietnam
• “data_analysis.dta”: main data set with the survey data from Bangladesh and Vietnam merged