**Code and Data behind Fritz & Manduca: The Economic Complexity of US Metropolitan Areas (2021)**
Structure:
* data: Raw data (as downloaded from ACS and other sources) --> not modifying the data in any way here!
* Check out the README and the data documentation in this folder.
* docs: For documentation of the data sources
* figs: All plots and regression tables.
* We have uploaded all the figures (which are 100% produced by 03-all_figures_+_analysis.Rmd) for your convenience.
* output: all non plot outputs from scripts - datasets which we produce.
* has our main dataset: panel_variables.csv
* as well as crosswalks and folders for ECI/Fitness and the adjacency matrices.
* scripts: The scripts producing crosswalks, the ECI/Fitness, our dataset, all figs and regressions for paper
* The scripts (except the function matrix_com) are written in R Notebooks.
Statistical Software:
* R 4.0.1
* using RStudio as IDE for optimal display of the R Notebooks.
* R Packages: "tidyverse", "reshape2", "stringr", "stargazer", "plm", "broom", "xtable", "readxl", "grid", "ggthemes", "magrittr", "scales", "RInSp".
* Plus for the correct display of the R Notebooks: "R Studio" (IDE), "rmarkdown", "knitr"
* Furthermore, we are using "Helvetica" as font for all our plots (loading this might differ based on the operating system).
