This repository contains the replication files for

Skinner, B.T., Levy, H., and Burtch, T. (2021). Digital redlining: the relevance of 20th century housing policy to 21st century broadband access and education. Annenberg Institute at Brown University (EdWorkingPaper: 21-471). Doi: 10.26300/q9av-9c93

Clone the project repository, cd into project directory, and run the makefile:

git clone https://github.com/btskinner/bb_holc_rep.git
cd ./bb_holc_rep
make

Or, after cloning the repository, cd into the ./scripts/r directory, and run the R scripts one by one in the following order:

1. check_packages.R
2. make_data_acs.R
3. make_data_fcc.R
4. make_data_geo.R
5. clean_data_acs.R
6. clean_data_fcc.R
7. analysis_acs.R
8. analysis_fcc.R
9. make_figures.R

Figures and tables found in the final paper can be built from figtab.md after completing all scripts and running from the docs directory:

pandoc figures.md \
--read=markdown \
--write=latex \
--output=./figures.pdf \
--resource-path=..:../figures