Replication package for: "Polarise and Rule: Independent Media in Autocracy and the Role of Social Media"

Replication package for: "Polarise and Rule: Independent Media in Autocracy and the Role of Social Media" (forthcoming in The Economic Journal) The replication folder contains all data and code files for reproducing the tables and figures in the original article. The file “code_master.do” runs the individual do-files for both experiments (“code_city_experiment.do” and “code_individual_experiment.do”). Individual do-files include variable descriptions and code annotations for each step of the analysis. The results are stored in the “replication_output” folder (the preferred root to the folder should be manually adjusted in the do-file). Table R2 at the end of this document lists all the output files and links them to the respective table/figure in the text. The datasets are also provided in the CSV format for non-Stata users. Additional information on the experimental designs, the survey instructions, and the questionnaires is enclosed in the two separate PDF files: “questionnaires_instructions.pdf” and “experiment_design.pdf”. The letter with the IRB approval is included as a PDF file (“IRB_approval.pdf”) . All code was created on Windows 10 using Stata/SE 18, and the packages required to run the Stata code are the following: outreg, outreg2, mmat2tex, grc1leg, unique, palettes, colrspace, ritest. (If replication is performed with an earlier version of Stata, we highly recommend removing the color scheme setting ‘set scheme stcolor’; also, please note that the user-written pscore command has to be updated to the latest version, or it may cause issues generating the match variable in earlier versions of Stata). The user will have to change the central directory in “code_master.do”. The code takes about 3 hours to run.