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A short thread on software, code, versioning, citation, and repositories. Only very few AEA articles reference Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repositories. More sho...

File paths in statistical software

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A short thread (PSA) on a FOC (frequently occurring problem) that shouldn’t be one: file paths in statistical software.

What data to provide

5 minute read

What do we mean by “data”?

Reproducible GIS

2 minute read

A note on reproducible GIS by economists: it’s mostly absent. Here are some tips.

A Day in the Life of a Data Editor

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I wanted to illustrate the range of the various topics that a Data Editor might face, by taking a fairly random day (2021-01-29) and listing all the various ...

Follow-up to Fireside Chat

11 minute read

In this post, I’ll pick up questions that have been asked over Twitter or during the 2021-01-19 Fireside chat, in long form (Twitter is not always the best m...

A discussion about various things

less than 1 minute read

Moved to later post.

Release of a template README

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We have released the first version of a template README for social sciences at https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/.

An example of reproducibility checking when data is restricted-access

3 minute read

I wanted to highlight a recently (2020-04-30) published article in the AEJ:Economic Policy as an example of reproducibility checking when data is restricted-...

License template

save “LICENSE.txt” as part of your deposit modify the COPYRIGHT line. Modified BSD License (https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) - applies t...

Licensing Guidance

This site does not provide legal guidance. The information below is provided for discussion and as a suggestion only. Authors should consult with a qualif...

A discussion about various things

Additional data citation guidance

Data deposit guidance

Guidance on how to deposit data at the AEA Data and Code Repository

Tutorial For a video tutorial on this process, see this Youtube video. Start the deposit process Go to the AEA Data and Code Repository, and start the pro...

Frequently Asked Questions

… although some are not frequently asked, but might nevertheless be useful. Below questions and answers in random order. Please be sure to check out the offi...

Step by step guidance

The following steps outline what you should expect after conditional a...

Preparing your files for verification

This document describes how to best prepare a replication package for an AEA journal. Much of the guidance here is not specific to our journals - in fact, th...

Guidance on testing replicability of code

The code and data that have been archived should be reproducible and replicable. How do we test that? Generic guidance Generic guidance is provided at the ...

Sharing restricted-access data with the AEA Data Editor

In certain cases, you may be able to share data you obtained from somebody (“data provider”) with the AEA Data Editor for the purpose of conducting reproduci...

Creating separate linked data archives

Every time we see that a lot of effort went into creating a data resource, we don’t want to have that sit hidden in a replication package. We want to give da...

Step by step guidance

What to expect next The next steps happen behin...

Data deposit guidance

Updating Materials available on the AEA Data and Code Repository

Once an article has been published in an AEA journal, the associated code and data deposit will also have been published in the AEA Data and Code Repository....

Migration of legacy replication packages (pending last packages)

Since July 16, 2019, the American Economic Association has used the AEA Data and Code Repository as the default archive for its supplements. The AEA also an...

Improving metadata of migrated replication packages

Improvement of metadata on migrated packages, those deposited before July 2019. see additional info if you received a request to contribute migration i...

Development of standardized README for social science journals

Together with other economics data editors, we developed a standardized README .

Identifying Stata packages used in replication packages

Initiated by one of our student replicators (Lydia Reiner), this project aims to run a static code analysis on replication packages, identifying Stata packag...

Improving Metadata

Emails sent Authors of articles may have received the following email:

Sharing And Reusing Research Data

Emails sent Members of the Association who are willing to receive occasional surveys about economics and economists received the following email from the AE...

Implementing Increased Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics

Abstract Replicability is at the core of the scientific enterprise. In the past 30 years, recurring concerns about the extent of replicability (or lack the...

Implementing Increased Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics

(together with cascad) Abstract Replicability is at the core of the scientific enterprise. In the past 30 years, recurring concerns about the extent of rep...

Implementing Increased Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics

(together with cascad) Abstract Replicability is at the core of the scientific enterprise. In the past 30 years, recurring concerns about the extent of rep...

Implementing Increased Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics

Abstract Replicability is at the core of the scientific enterprise. In the past 30 years, recurring concerns about the extent of replicability (or lack the...

Implementing Increased Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics

(with BITSS) Abstract Replicability is at the core of the scientific enterprise. In the past 30 years, recurring concerns about the extent of replicability...

Implementing Increased Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics

(together with BITSS) Abstract Replicability is at the core of the scientific enterprise. In the past 30 years, recurring concerns about the extent of repl...