Authors: Zachary Van Winkle & Emanuela Struffolino
Date: 09.08.2018
Purpose: Read-Me for the Files Needed to Replicate the Results in the Manuscript:
	When Working Isn’t Enough:
	Family Demographic Processes & In-Work Poverty across the Life Course in the United States
Note: You will need Stata 14 or more recent. Depending on your system, the analyses may take up to 6 hours.

Step 1: Unzip the replication package. You should find the following file structure:
	00_do-files
        O1_data
	02_logs
	03_graphs
Within the “01_data” folder, create the following folders:
	NLSY79
	01_temp
See “00_0_master.do” for more details.

Step 2: Create an account to access the NLSY Investigator (https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/login.jsp) and use the file “WorkingPoor79.NLSY79” found in the “01_data/NLSY79” folder to download the raw data. Unpack the .zip in the “01_data/NLSY97” folder. Please note that will also install variables not needed for the analyses. A list of the key variables can be found below.

Step 3: Download the “occ2000_occ1990dd.dta” file from Daniel Dorn’s Website (https://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/people/faculty/dorn.html) and place it in the “01_data” folder. This is used to harmonize the occupation codes.

Step 4: Install the following packages in Stata: “plotplainblind”, “estout”, and “coefplot”

Step 5: Amend the paths in the “00_0_master.do” do-file and execute the file. This will successively execute the do-files: “00_0_master.do”, “00_1_LabelRawData.do”, “00_2_DataFileSimplification.do”, “01_CombineData.do”, and “02_Analysis.do”.

Key Analysis Variables:
emp		Employment status indicator: 1 denotes employed if respondent worked 26 weeks or more in the past year.
poor		In-work poverty status indicator: missing if respondent less than 26 weeks employed and 1 is equal to in-work poverty if respondent worked 26 weeks or more and lives in a household under the relative poverty threshold.
lph		Left the parental home indicator: 1 denotes respondent in not living in the parental home.
marstat		Marital status indicator variable: 0 denotes not married, 1 indicated married, and 2 denotes divorce or separation. See also “marstat_*” and “mar_*”.
cnumb		Number of children variable top coded at 2 children. See also “kids_*”.
edu		Educational attainment indicator variable: 1 if the respondent completed 12 school grades, 2 for less than 12 grades, and 3 for more than 12 grades. See also “hgc”.
wkhrs		Average number of weekly work hours in the past year.
urban_rural	Indicator for urban or rural residency at time of the interview.
occ		Occupational group of respondents. See step 3 above.
gender		Respondent’s gender: 1 = male, 2 = female.