The oldest AEA replication package
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We were recently discussing among data editors what the oldest replication package (in Econ and Political Science) might be.
I actually don’t know the answer to that. But the oldest replication package we have in the (migrated) AEA archives is:
Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Romer, David H. Replication data for: Does Trade Cause Growth? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113211V1.
which accompanies this article:
Frankel, Jeffrey A, and David Romer. “Does Trade Cause Growth?” American Economic Review 89, no. 3 (June 1999): 379–99. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.89.3.379.
Find out yourself: a (fully reproducible) way to verify this (there are better ways, of course)
library(readr)
library(tidyverse) # I'm lazy
baseurl <- "https://github.com/AEADataEditor/aea-supplement-migration/raw/master/data/acquired"
# alternatively, if running locally
# baseurl <- "data/acquired"
aea_article_data <- read_csv(file.path(baseurl,
"aea_article_data.csv.gz"))
aea_issue_data <- read_csv(file.path(baseurl,
"aea_issue_data.csv.gz"))
aea_icpsr_mapping <- read_csv(file.path(baseurl,
"aea_icpsr_mapping.20191014.txt"),
col_names = c("icpsr_doi","zipfile")) %>%
mutate(zipfile = str_remove(zipfile,
fixed("Original Zip: ")))
aea_deposits <- left_join(aea_article_data,aea_icpsr_mapping,
by=c("icpsr_package_name"="zipfile")) %>%
left_join(aea_issue_data,by=c("issue_id"))
# oldest package
aea_deposits %>% filter(year==min(aea_deposits$year)) %>%
select(doi,title,journal,volume,issue, year,icpsr_doi)
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