CEPS Return Migration & Parental Educational Investment — Replication Package
Author: Xinyue Wu, Mariana Amorim
Last updated: 2026-01-27  
Software: Stata 18.0
This repository contains replication materials for analyses using CEPS data to examine the association between return migration (`retmig`) and household educational investment outcomes, with inverse-probability weighting (IPW), multiple imputation (MI), KHB decomposition, and post-estimation plots.
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1. Contents
`replication.do`  
Main Stata do-file that:
loads the analysis dataset
performs multiple imputation (MI) using chained equations
generates IPW and combined weights
produces Table 1 (descriptives)
produces Table 2 (KHB decomposition)
produces Figures 1–5 (AMEs and predicted probabilities)
(Optional outputs you may export)
`Figure1_AME_probability.png`
`Figure2_AME_conditional_amount.png`
`Figure3_AME_probability_by_hukou.png`
`Figure4_AME_conditional_amount_by_hukou.png`
`Figure5_predicted_probability_by_parental_coresidence.png`
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2. Requirements
2.1 Software
Stata 18.0 (or later)
2.2 User-written Stata commands
This replication uses the following user-written commands:
`khb` — for Karlson–Holm–Breen (KHB) decomposition
`mimrgns` — MI-friendly margins and AMEs
Install (if needed):
```stata
ssc install khb, replace
ssc install mimrgns, replace
```