This directory provides the data sets and Stata code required to reproduce the figures and tables in Boone, Dube, and Kaplan (2014), "The Political Economy of Discretionary Spending: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act".  

-- Modify tables.do and figures.do to set THIS folder to be your Stata working directory.
-- Run tables.do and figures.do to replicate the tables and figures.  These files are located in the /code folder.  
-- Stata data sets (created using Stata version 12) are located in the /data folder.
-- The code will save figures and tables in the /output folder.
