Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates

Sam Asher; Paul Novosad; Charlie Rafkin (2024). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

Under development — community extension. This is a provisional source-design assessment, not a new successful replication or a final eligibility ruling.

Extension index · Provisional eligibility log · Assessment JSON · QMD · Reproduction code

Source design and template applicability

The public target computes intergenerational-mobility bounds and distributional summaries. These are not treatment-adoption effects; an appendix regression does not replace the main estimand.

No DiD estimates, uncertainty intervals or homogeneity-test decision were computed in this tranche. No point is added to the calibration plots. This is not a zero effect or a failed statistical test.

Recorded treatment-column measurement

Not applicable.

The selected intergenerational-mobility rank-bound estimand has no single assigned treatment column to count.

These are the existing data-measured counts, not counts inferred from design labels. A binary instrument, group indicator or interaction component need not be the treatment of interest; the source-design assessment above takes precedence for template applicability.

Replication status

This tranche: unsupported design; source code/documentation inspected, no estimator run.

Supplied library: no_did_analysis_data; verification: verified with blocked rows; preparation: needs_helper_files. These are the library’s labels, not new verification claims. Missing data and unsupported designs are separate issues.

Evidence and provenance

The following files in the supplied library were inspected. Their SHA-256 digests are recorded in the downloadable assessment JSON. Source archives and microdata are not redistributed.

  • AEJ-Applied/Asher_Novosad_Rafkin_AEJ-Applied_2024_184504/R/494_asher_novosad_rafkin_replicate.R (366 lines)
  • AEJ-Applied/Asher_Novosad_Rafkin_AEJ-Applied_2024_184504/verdict.md (73 lines)
  • AEJ-Applied/Asher_Novosad_Rafkin_AEJ-Applied_2024_184504/aeraej-494.md (100 lines)