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This is mostly borrowed from the world bank's EDB. https://dimewiki.worldbank.org/wiki/Stata_Coding_Practices
Please use forward slashes (that is C:/path/to/your/folder) instead of backslashes for unix/mac compatability. I'm forgetful about this.

I keep each project in a separate folder. A stata do file containing folder names get stored as a macro in stata's startup profile.do. This lets me start working on any of my projects by opening stata and typing:
I keep each project in a separate folder. The full path to ``stata_code/project_logistics/folder_setup_globals.do``is stored as the macro ``CostofClimateChange`` in stata's startup profile.do. This lets me start working on any of my projects by opening stata and typing:
```
do $my_project_name
do $CostofClimateChange
```
Rstudio users using projects don't have to do this step. But it is convenient to read paths into variables by using the "R_paths_libraries.R" file.

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