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This document explains the data files and programs used to generate results reported in JHR
paper, “The Role of Conferences on the Pathway to Academic Impact: Evidence from a Natural
Experiment”, by Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon and Ben McQuillin.
We enclose the following programs (do) and data files (csv) used to perform the analysis in the
paper. They are organized as follows:

a. MAINDATAauthorpaperlevel.csv is a csv file containing the dataset at the
author-paper level

b. MAINDATApaperlevel. csv is a file containing the dataset at the paper level

c. DataBoycott.csv is a csv file containing the dataset at the conference-year level

d. TablesJHR_TEXT.do is a do file. It transform the csv files to STATA *.dta
file, and replicates the summary statistics and regression results reported in the
main text

e. TablesJHR_APPENDIX.do is a do file. It transform the csv files to STATA
*.dta file, and replicates all results reported in the Appendix.