README FILE FOR "LOCAL EFFECTS OF A MILITARY SPENDING SHOCK: EVIDENCE FROM SHIPBUILDING IN THE 1930s"

1.  There are two program files and four data files.

2.  The main Stata file is ships_july2018_repl.do, which contains the vast majority of the results.  
    Namely, all but Figure 1 and the first and third lines of Table 2 come from this file.  
    It draws on all 4 data files (ship_contracts.xslx, fishback.dta, retail_add.dta, and consumersurvey_abridged.dta)
    The file ship_contracts.xlsx is original and constructed by the author.
    The Stata data files fishback.dta and retail_add.dta are modifications of files downloaded from Price Fishback's web site.
    The Stata data file consumersurvey_abridged.dta is a modification of a file downloaded from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
    Within the do file, there are notes indicating which lines of code produce which tables or figures.
    
3.  The first and third lines of Table 2 can be found at the bottom of the "contracts" tab of ship_contracts.xlsx

4.  Figure 1 is reproduced by running the R file, tsplot_for_contracts_repl.R
    It does not draw on any of the data files.

5.  It does not matter in which order the files are run.

6.  They were ultimately estimated on a Windows 10 machine, with Stata/IC 15.1 and R x64 3.5.1

7.  The Stata program takes about 1 minute to run.  The R program takes only a couple of seconds.