Guidance for authors wishing to create data and code supplements, and for replicators.
These web pages provide unofficial and developing guidance on the implementation of the American Economic Association (AEA)’s Data and Code Availability Policy. We also provide links to generic guidance being developed by a loose collective (“guild”) of data editors and people in a similar role at various social science journals.
- Start with the official Data and Code Availability Policy
- Follow the step-by-step guidance to walk you through preparing and uploading your replication packages, and what to expect afterwards.
In addition to the detailed step-by-step guidance, the following sites contain useful information:
- Look for general guidance at the Social Science Data Editors pages
- Read the AEA’s FAQ
- Have a look at the draft FAQ on this site for thorny issues
Comments are welcome, please file them as issues in our Github repo.
How should researchers create replicable data and program archives? How should such archives be structured, how documented, and where should they be located?
Data citation is critical for documenting data provenance, and the AEA requires data citations. But data citations can also be hard.
The AEA migrated to a new data and code repository in July 2019. See
The code and data that have been archived should be reproducible and replicable. How do we test that?