Read Me File for Replication Materials 

Paper: Age at First Sex and Adult Mental Health in Nicaragua
Demographic Research, 2020 

Authors: Jake J. Hays and Kammi K. Schmeer
Please contact Jake Hays (hays.155@osu.edu) with any questions. 

Notes for users:
1. We provide replication materials in Stata.
2. Analyses were conducted in Stata 14.2
3. Data are avaialable in .sav file format (SPSS) here: 
https://www.inide.gob.ni/Home/dataBasesENDESA?Length=4
4. We provide the necessary data files in .dta file format (Stata) for ease of use with our 
analysis files.

-----Notes on files in this folder-----

Data Files (Stata format): 
--Note: the code for combining these data files is included in the do-files provided below

ENDESA2011 Entrevista Individual de Mujeres en Edad Fertil 
-- this is the data file for women in our sample

ENDESA2011 Entrevista Individual de Hombres en Edad Fertil
-- this is the data file for men in our sample

ENDESA2011 Entrevista Individual de Mujeres en Edad Fertil
-- this is the data file containing informaton on household assets (i.e., our wealth variable)


do files (Stata format):
age1sexmh-master
-- Start here! This do file outlines the order in which the other do files should be used and 
installs several stata packages that we use throughout our analysis. 

age1sexmh-cleaning-recode
-- this do file merges the data and cleans the variables used in the analysis

age1sexmh-cleaning-multiple-imputation
-- this do file performs the multiple imputation on the data

age1sexmh-models-descriptives
-- this do file provides descriptive statistics of our analytic sample

age1sexmh-models-main-analysis
-- this do file provides the code for the main analysis of our paper

age1sexmh-models-mediation
-- this do file provides code for the mediation analysis of our paper 

age1sexmh-models-sensitivity-functional-forms
-- this do file provides code for the sensitivity check that tests various functional forms of
age at first sex

age1sexmh-models-sensitivity-nosex-category
-- this do file provides code for the sensitivity check that tests whether including "never had 
sex" as a category influences our results