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michaelstepner / LICENSE
Last active June 20, 2023 20:19
Split a PDF at a specific bookmark; preserve bookmarks in each output PDF (using pdftk)
Zero-Clause BSD
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WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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michaelstepner / datasources.md
Last active February 4, 2022 16:45
Open Data for Health Economics - Undergraduate Empirical Analysis
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michaelstepner / vam_datasim.ado
Created October 25, 2019 20:32
Value-Added Model: data simulation
*! version 1.0 27jul2013 Michael Stepner, stepner@mit.edu
program define vam_datasim
version 11
syntax , var_mu(real) var_w(real) delta(real) var_lambda(real) var_ind(real) num_teachers(integer) max_T(integer) max_C(integer) max_I(integer) ///
[teacher(name) year(name) class(name) score(name) ///
randomize_num_classes randomize_class_sizes randomize_class_years ///
debug]
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michaelstepner / supremes_survival.do
Created July 19, 2018 19:15
Expected survival probabilities of Supreme Court Justices, accounting for age, sex and income
* Load Health Inequality Project data
use "https://healthinequality.org/dl/health_ineq_online_table_16.dta", clear
* Combine all information from 2001-2014
isid gnd indv_pctile age age_at_d yod
collapse (mean) mortrate indv_inc [w=count], by(gnd indv_pctile age_at_d)
* Use income percentiles that approximate associate justice salary (~$213,900)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_judge_salaries_in_the_United_States
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michaelstepner / American Upward Mobility - by Race x Gender.do
Created March 23, 2018 12:50
Upward Mobility in the United States by Race x Gender
*! 23mar2018 Michael Stepner
* Code released to public domain under CC0 license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
* Use it and adapt it as you like.
/*** Plot intergenerational mobility by Race x Gender for multiple races
***/
* Load quintile transition matrices from Chetty, Hendren, Jones, and Porter (2018). http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/
use "http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/race/table_2.dta", clear
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michaelstepner / stata.toc
Last active September 22, 2023 08:52
A Stata program to output a number or string to YAML
v 0.0.2
d Michael Stepner, stepner@mit.edu
p 'yamlout': export key, value, and comment to a YAML file
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michaelstepner / test_domainerror.R
Last active February 28, 2016 19:40
Julia GLM: Domain Error
dfpass = read.table("test_domainerror_pass.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",")
dffail = read.table("test_domainerror_fail.csv", header=TRUE, sep=",")
glm(mortrate ~ age_at_d, dfpass, family=binomial(link = "log"), weights=dfpass[, "count"])
glm(mortrate ~ age_at_d, dffail, family=binomial(link = "log"), weights=dffail[, "count"], start=c(-10,0.1))
glm(mortrate ~ age_at_d, dffail, family=binomial(link = "log"), weights=dffail[, "count"])