Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age

Abhay Aneja; Guo Xu (2024) · American Economic Review

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-92")

Abhay Aneja; Guo Xu (2024). American Economic Review. Table 2.

Template assessment

The supplied R script expects a merged analysis file containing treat_post, base_n_tot, sid and city controls. The deposited raw errors files lack those columns; the merge/preparation and multi-way slope-effects adapter are required.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.