I wanted to briefly discuss the challenges when conducting data provenance and reproducibility checks, for complex and highly interesting articles, with the ...
I wanted to highlight a particular interesting article in the latest AEJ: Microeconomics from the perspective of replicability and reproducibility.
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-...
I wanted to highlight a particular interesting article in the latest AEJ: Microeconomics from the perspective of replicability and reproducibility.
In reproducibility verification, a common scenario is the author response “but-it-works-on-my-machine”. Finding common environments is important in such situ...
A short thread on software, code, versioning, citation, and repositories. Only very few AEA articles reference Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repositories. More sho...
A short thread (PSA) on a FOC (frequently occurring problem) that shouldn’t be one: file paths in statistical software.
I was recently forwarded a question from a data librarian discussion list, and invited to respond to the question of “example language” for a data access des...
I was recently forwarded a question from a data librarian discussion list, and invited to respond to the question of “example language” for a data access des...
Toni Whited (EIC of Journal of Financial Economics) had the following question on the ex-bird site: Econ and finance journals are getting their acts toge...
A short thread (PSA) on a FOC (frequently occurring problem) that shouldn’t be one: file paths in statistical software.
What do we mean by “data”?
In reproducibility verification, a common scenario is the author response “but-it-works-on-my-machine”. Finding common environments is important in such situ...
I sometimes see researchers doing much copy-pasting between output from Stata/R/MATLAB and Excel, to create tables. This is a lot of work, the source of many...
In reproducibility verification, a common scenario is the author response “but-it-works-on-my-machine”. Finding common environments is important in such situ...
A short thread on software, code, versioning, citation, and repositories. Only very few AEA articles reference Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repositories. More sho...
A short thread (PSA) on a FOC (frequently occurring problem) that shouldn’t be one: file paths in statistical software.
What do we mean by “data”?
A note on reproducible GIS by economists: it’s mostly absent. Here are some tips.
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 ...
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...
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 note on reproducible GIS by economists: it’s mostly absent. Here are some tips.
I was recently forwarded a question from a data librarian discussion list, and invited to respond to the question of “example language” for a data access des...
Toni Whited (EIC of Journal of Financial Economics) had the following question on the ex-bird site: Econ and finance journals are getting their acts toge...
We have released the first version of a template README for social sciences at https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/.
A short thread on software, code, versioning, citation, and repositories. Only very few AEA articles reference Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repositories. More sho...
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 ...
In reproducibility verification, a common scenario is the author response “but-it-works-on-my-machine”. Finding common environments is important in such situ...
A short thread on software, code, versioning, citation, and repositories. Only very few AEA articles reference Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repositories. More sho...
A short thread (PSA) on a FOC (frequently occurring problem) that shouldn’t be one: file paths in statistical software.
What do we mean by “data”?
A note on reproducible GIS by economists: it’s mostly absent. Here are some tips.
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 ...
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...
We have released the first version of a template README for social sciences at https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/.
I was recently forwarded a question from a data librarian discussion list, and invited to respond to the question of “example language” for a data access des...
On a tangent: we get this question regularly - how to prepare replication packages for papers that used confidential data (here: by statistical agencies). A ...
The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Awards highlight the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics,...
I wanted to briefly discuss the challenges when conducting data provenance and reproducibility checks, for complex and highly interesting articles, with the ...
I wanted to highlight a particular interesting article in the latest AEJ: Microeconomics from the perspective of replicability and reproducibility.
I sometimes see researchers doing much copy-pasting between output from Stata/R/MATLAB and Excel, to create tables. This is a lot of work, the source of many...
We often see researchers handle variants of their analysis by copying and pasting code, or by copying code files into separate directories, and making only m...
I have been asked a few times about guidance for replication packages that use confidential data in research data centers, e.g., the Federal Statistical Res...
I wanted to briefly discuss the challenges when conducting data provenance and reproducibility checks, for complex and highly interesting articles, with the ...
Back in the fall, I made a few notes regarding how to prepare replication packages when data are confidential (here). What I did not address, and what comes ...
I was recently forwarded a question from a data librarian discussion list, and invited to respond to the question of “example language” for a data access des...
Toni Whited (EIC of Journal of Financial Economics) had the following question on the ex-bird site: Econ and finance journals are getting their acts toge...
I have been asked a few times about guidance for replication packages that use confidential data in research data centers, e.g., the Federal Statistical Res...
Back in the fall, I made a few notes regarding how to prepare replication packages when data are confidential (here). What I did not address, and what comes ...
The template README required by various econ journals asks for a statement about the rights to RE-distribute data. Many economists are confused by this: “But...
I sometimes see researchers doing much copy-pasting between output from Stata/R/MATLAB and Excel, to create tables. This is a lot of work, the source of many...
The AEA Data and Code Availability Policy asks that authors provide access to all data used in a published paper. But it also acknowledges that there are cas...
We often see researchers handle variants of their analysis by copying and pasting code, or by copying code files into separate directories, and making only m...
Many researchers are confused by the difference between “use” and “(re-)distribution” of data. In a nutshell, just because you are able to freely use the dat...
In the AMAs (see past and future AMAs), we talked about many things. No transcript, but here’s a raw dump of the various websites that were used.
On 2022-12-15, various data editors, including myself, launched the Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS). In this post, I will do a self-assessment o...
The data editors of the journals of the American Economic Association1, of the Royal Economic Society2, the Review of Economic Studies, the Canadian Journa...
We often see researchers handle variants of their analysis by copying and pasting code, or by copying code files into separate directories, and making only m...
I have previously posted about how to update a replication package, after initial publication. We do get more than a dozen such updates a year (see my annual...
The AEA Data and Code Availability does not just require that authors publish a replication package - it also encourages authors to improve upon the replicat...
The template README required by various econ journals asks for a statement about the rights to RE-distribute data. Many economists are confused by this: “But...
Many researchers are confused by the difference between “use” and “(re-)distribution” of data. In a nutshell, just because you are able to freely use the dat...
After our recent discussion about the oldest AEA replication package, I navigated over to the really old archive at the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Surp...
We were recently discussing among data editors what the oldest replication package (in Econ and Political Science) might be.
THIS HAS BEEN RESOLVED. Please deposit as usual! The AEA uses the openICPSR repository for the deposit and dissemination of replication packages. On Sun...
THIS HAS BEEN RESOLVED. Please deposit as usual! The AEA uses the openICPSR repository for the deposit and dissemination of replication packages. On Sun...
THIS HAS BEEN RESOLVED. Please deposit as usual! The AEA uses the openICPSR repository for the deposit and dissemination of replication packages. On Sun...
On 2022-12-15, various data editors, including myself, launched the Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS). In this post, I will do a self-assessment o...
The data editors of the journals of the American Economic Association1, of the Royal Economic Society2, the Review of Economic Studies, the Canadian Journa...
The template README required by various econ journals asks for a statement about the rights to RE-distribute data. Many economists are confused by this: “But...
On a tangent: we get this question regularly - how to prepare replication packages for papers that used confidential data (here: by statistical agencies). A ...
I sometimes see researchers doing much copy-pasting between output from Stata/R/MATLAB and Excel, to create tables. This is a lot of work, the source of many...
The AEA Data and Code Availability Policy asks that authors provide access to all data used in a published paper. But it also acknowledges that there are cas...
We often see researchers handle variants of their analysis by copying and pasting code, or by copying code files into separate directories, and making only m...
Many researchers are confused by the difference between “use” and “(re-)distribution” of data. In a nutshell, just because you are able to freely use the dat...
In the AMAs (see past and future AMAs), we talked about many things. No transcript, but here’s a raw dump of the various websites that were used.
The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Awards highlight the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics,...
I have previously posted about how to update a replication package, after initial publication. We do get more than a dozen such updates a year (see my annual...
After our recent discussion about the oldest AEA replication package, I navigated over to the really old archive at the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Surp...
We were recently discussing among data editors what the oldest replication package (in Econ and Political Science) might be.
On 2022-12-15, various data editors, including myself, launched the Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS). In this post, I will do a self-assessment o...
The data editors of the journals of the American Economic Association1, of the Royal Economic Society2, the Review of Economic Studies, the Canadian Journa...
The template README required by various econ journals asks for a statement about the rights to RE-distribute data. Many economists are confused by this: “But...
The AEA Data and Code Availability does not just require that authors publish a replication package - it also encourages authors to improve upon the replicat...
On a tangent: we get this question regularly - how to prepare replication packages for papers that used confidential data (here: by statistical agencies). A ...
I wanted to highlight a particular interesting article in the latest AEJ: Microeconomics from the perspective of replicability and reproducibility.
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-...
On 2022-12-15, various data editors, including myself, launched the Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS). In this post, I will do a self-assessment o...
The data editors of the journals of the American Economic Association1, of the Royal Economic Society2, the Review of Economic Studies, the Canadian Journa...
The AEA Data and Code Availability Policy asks that authors provide access to all data used in a published paper. But it also acknowledges that there are cas...
Many researchers are confused by the difference between “use” and “(re-)distribution” of data. In a nutshell, just because you are able to freely use the dat...
The template README required by various econ journals asks for a statement about the rights to RE-distribute data. Many economists are confused by this: “But...
I have previously posted about how to update a replication package, after initial publication. We do get more than a dozen such updates a year (see my annual...
The AEA Data and Code Availability does not just require that authors publish a replication package - it also encourages authors to improve upon the replicat...