Replication Data for Son Preference and Women's Mental Health in India

Replication package for a paper published in the Journal of Development Economics. It contains Stata Do-Files and Data Files to reproduce the tables from the main paper and its appendix. The data was authored by Mahesh Karra and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse, last updated on 2026-06-27.

Use Cases

• Replicate econometric tables on son preference and mental health based on the provided Stata do-files.
• Analyze the relationship between intergenerational household dynamics and women's mental health based on the described study.
• Conduct secondary analysis on the factors influencing son preference in India using the underlying data files.

Strengths

• Includes replication code (Stata .do files) that reproduces the tables from a peer-reviewed journal article.
• Data is associated with a specific published paper in the Journal of Development Economics, providing academic context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely contains survey or administrative data used in the original research paper.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 15:12:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

India