"Living Arrangements and Labor Market Volatility of Young Workers" Replication Repository

This repository is dedicated to replicating the results from the paper titled "Living Arrangements and Labor Market Volatility of Young Workers" by Sebastian Dyrda (University of Toronto), Greg Kaplan (University of Chicago, e61 Institute and NBER) and José Víctor Ríos Rull (University of Pennsylvania, UCL, CAERP, CEPR, and NBER), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Repository Contents

The repository contains the following folders for replication purposes:

1. data: Data from the Current Population Survey (CPS).
2. manuscript: The original paper detailing the findings and methodology used in the study.
3. output: Figures and tables used in the paper.
4. programs: MATLAB and Stata files generating figures and tables used in the paper.

How to Use

To replicate the results presented in the paper, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. Ensure you have MATLAB, Dynare and Stata installed on your computer.
3. Run the MATLAB file run_all_matlab.m to replicate the figures and tables.
4. Execute the Stata file run_all_stata.do to generate figures from the data section.

Requirements

• MATLAB (for figures and tables)
• Stata (for figures in the data section)
• Dynare package (for solving the model)

Citation

If you use the data or replication files from this repository in your research, please cite the original paper as follows:

Dyrda, Sebastian, Greg Kaplan, and José Víctor Ríos Rull. "Living Arrangements and Labor Market Volatility of Young Workers." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2024, Forthcoming.

BibTeX

For those who wish to use BibTeX, you can cite the paper using the following entry:

@article{dkrr2024_jedc,
  title={Living Arrangements and Labor Market Volatility of Young Workers},
  author={Dyrda, Sebastian and Kaplan, Greg and Ríos-Rull, José Víctor},
  journal={Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control},
  year={2024},
  note={Forthcoming}
}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

Contacts

• Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
• Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago, e61 Institute and NBER
• José Víctor Ríos Rull, University of Pennsylvania, UCL, CAERP, CEPR, and NBER

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