Populism and Narratives of Social Mobility: Replication Package

Replication Package — "Populism and Narratives of Social Mobility" Lorenz Meister (DIW Berlin & Freie Universität Berlin) This repository contains all code and documentation needed to reproduce the empirical results of the paper. The analysis draws on three original survey waves (N ≈ 6,600 U.S. residents, 2024–2025), administrative mobility data from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018), and county-level electoral data from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab. What's included: Stata do-files, a Python script for LLM-based narrative classification, survey questionnaires, and a codebook. Public data sources are freely downloadable; see the README for links and folder structure. Survey data: Available upon request — contact lmeister@diw.de. Prolific user IDs and IP addresses are not included.