Chapter 2 Coding Guide for Folder Structure

Please see Julian Reif’s coding guide at https://julianreif.com/guide/. These are very good tips very about repliciability and organization. Having your files organized in a folder as an example below will not only with organization, but with replication, as well. You can hand over the entire folder structure, and another users will be able to run the master do file with just changing the main folder location once.

Folder Structure

• ├── analysis/
  • ├── data/
  • ├── processed/
  • ├── results/
    • ├── figures/
    • ├── tables/
    • ├── scripts/
      • ├── 1_process_raw_data.do
      • ├── 2_…
  • ├── run.do
• ├── paper/
  • ├── manuscript.tex
  • ├── figures/
  • ├── tables/