Empirical Exercise 1

This exercise makes use of the data set E1-CohenEtAl-data.dta, a subset of the data used in the paper Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial by Jessica Cohen, Pascaline Dupas, and Simone Schaner, published in the American Economic Review in 2015. The authors examine behavioral responses to various discounts (“subsidies”) for malaria treatment, called “artemisinin combination therapy” or “ACT.”

The aim of this empirical exercise is to review key Stata commands. You can download the activity as a do file or a pdf.

This exercise is part of Module 1: Why Evaluate?.