Replication codes for 
"The Effect of Financial Strain and Parental Depression on Child Behavioral Difficulties During the Great Recession in Ireland: A Fixed Effects Analysis",
Gibbons, R.A., and Layte, R. (2026)

There are eight do files, numbered sequentially: 
1. Main_directory (this do file specifies file paths, and the order in which each subsquent do file should be run)
2. Data_cleaning.do (this do file cleans the data from waves 1-3 of the GUI Cohort98 datasets)
3. Combining non imputed datasets.do (this do file combines the individual datasets created in 2. Data_cleaning.do, into a single dataset in long format)
4. Descriptives.do (this do file runs the descriptive analyses and summary statistics)
5. Imputing.do (this do file reshapes the data to wide, employs multiple imputations using chained equations, and reshapes the dataset back to long)
6.0 MLM_programme.do (this do file is run directly in do files 6.1 and 6.2 - it provides a programme developed by the author to present tables with confidence intervals)
6.1 Models_z.do (this do file runs the multilevel models and mediation models using class)
6.2 Models_educ.do (this do file runs the multilevel models using parental education)

All do files should be saved to a single folder, with the "global syntax" in do file "1. Main_directory" changed to match this filepath.
Filepaths to globals "data" and "output" should also be adjusted to the relevant folders.  
Once these globals have been defined, running 1. Main_directory will run the entire analyses.