persuasio: Stata module to estimate the effect of persuasion and conduct inference

• Authors: Sung Jae Jun (Penn State University) and Sokbae Lee (Columbia University)

• Language: Stata (Requires: Stata version 16.1)

• License: GPL-3

• Version: 0.2.1

News

• Updates on November 20, 2022:

  1. The required Stata version is now 16.1

  2. r(table) is called after ereturn post to avoid syntax errors.

• Updates on November 13, 2022:

  1. The cases with covariates are updated.

  2. Standard errors are reported to be missing if nlcom does not produce standard errors due to singularity.

Abstract

This repository contains persuasio command that estimates the effect of persuasion and conducts inference, using some of identification results obtained in Jun and Lee (2022, arXiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02276). Stata commands are posted at the Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive.

Installation

The Stata module persuasio should be installed from within Stata by typing ssc install persuasio.

Included ado-files (8 files):

• aprlb.ado
• aprub.ado
• calc4persuasio.ado
• lpr4ytz.ado
• persuasio.ado
• persuasio4ytz.ado
• persuasio4ytz2lpr.ado
• persuasio4yz.ado

Included help files (8 files):

• aprlb.sthlp
• aprub.sthlp
• calc4persuasio.sthlp
• lpr4ytz.sthlp
• persuasio.sthlp
• persuasio4ytz.sthlp
• persuasio4ytz2lpr.sthlp
• persuasio4yz.sthlp

An example do file and a small dataset (2 files):

• persuasio_example.do
• GKB_persuasio.dta

A draft version of the manual is available in a pdf file.

Acknowledgment

The help files are generated by the markdoc command developed by E. F. Haghish.

Reference

Sung Jae Jun and Sokbae Lee. 2022. Identifying the Effect of Persuasion. https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02276.