Replication codes for “Changes in the Household Expenditure Basket during COVID-19 in India”
Replication codes for Choudhuri P. and Desai S. (2026). “Changes in the Household Expenditure Basket during COVID-19 in India”, forthcoming in Demographic Research
Instructions to replicate the results in the paper
The main ‘do’ file is structured in a self-explanatory way.
A. The main file is “panel_dmas_code.do” which uses “panel_dmas_matched.dta” to generate 
1. Descriptive statistics
a. Table 1 
b. Figures 1 – 4 
2. Regression results
a. Table 2, Table 2A, Table 3
b. Figures 5A, 5B, 5C
3. Appendix 
a. Table A.1, A.3, A.3A, A.4
b. Figure A.1

B. The main file “panel_dmas_code.do” calls "panel_unmatched.dta" to generate attrition weights. The results from the regression are reported in the following table:
1. Appendix
a. Table A.2

C. The weights created using "panel_unmatched.dta" are next merged with “panel_dmas_matched.dta” for further analysis, creating the following tables:
1. Appendix
a. Table A.3, A.3A, A.4