README for replication material: Why Hide? Africa's Unreported Debt to China
September 2023

The files are accompanying replication material for the following paper:
Title: "Why Hide? Africa's unreported debt to China"
Author: Kathleen J. Brown
Journal: Review of International Organizations

The release consists of the following files:
Why_Hide_README.txt 	
Why_Hide_rep.R	
Why_Hide_mfx.do		
Why_Hide_rep.Rda	
Why_Hide_commitments.Rda		
Why_Hide_rep.dta		


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### Data:
Brown_Why_Hide_rep.Rda contains the full dataset (R version) used for all analyses in the manuscript and most analyses in the appendix. 
Brown_Why_Hide_rep.dta contains a Stata version of the full dataset; the two files are identical. 
Brown_Why_Hide_commitments.Rda contains the hidden commitments data used in analyses in Appendix D.


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### Code:
The main analyses in the manuscript and appendix were carried out in R (version 4.01). 
Brown_Why_Hide_rep.R is an R script that contains code for most analyses in the manuscript and all analyses in the Appendix. 
Brown_Why_Hide_mfx.do is a Stata do-file that contains code for Figure 2 in the manuscript (plots of marginal effects of distance from the threshold across IMF program). 