AEA Data Editor

🪅DHS (not that one) Program website active again, and accepting requests for data access dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N... (via @ipums.bsky.social )

A data citation covers most of those (name, title, link), does not cover the disclaimer, but honestly, that seems a bit obscure. The piece so often missing is the ack that it is, actually, under CC-BY, and that that license is "sticky". I would be happy for just that.

That's not the kind of precision that the @creativecommons.bsky.social folks say: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

That being said, I was (for rhetorical reasons) simplifying somewhat. But I would be happy if folks would actually do that one thing, bc generally, they do none of that....

Luckily, just about any repository out there hosting replication packages (and other data) provide you with a

SIMPLE

way to do that: Copy the citation... (or use your citation manager, e.g. @zotero.org to store the DOI). #datacitation #openscience

I would like to re-emphasize that when data are "publicly available" (as authors frequently mention), the LICENSE matters. Most AEA replication packages are fully or partially under a #CC-BY license. You have ONE (only ONE) obligation, but you MUST fulfill that one obligation: CITE THE DATA!

Of course, my name tag won't say "Data Editor, speak to me". Look for this guy: @larsvil.bsky.social

#sole2025 coming up! I'll be there, hanging around the post-lunch Poster session (P01/2 Metropolitan East) on Friday, if you have questions! (My name tag will give me away). Or buttonhole me at the Cocktail reception on Saturday.

This is an important part of the scientific process!

It is always a pleasure, but also causes some trepidation 😰, when a bunch of motivated junior (and senior!) researchers get together at @i4replication.bsky.social replication games, and I get to observe how others work with the replication packages that we helped prepare! #Montreal

Not at the moment. Sorry.

None of this is a guarantee that we truly learn the identity of a firm. There are many (plausible, legitimate, legal) reasons why the identify of a data source may not be available to even the editors, and yet warrant publication. It's a balance.

And I'm always happy to discuss, by email, or at conferences, what that might look like exactly. bsky.app/profile/aead...

Some discussion of (similar) scenarios in 2024 aeadataeditor.github.io/posts/2024-0... and a bit more tangentially in 2023 aeadataeditor.github.io/posts/2023-1...

Our policy is already too long to cover all possible scenarios, I am told (repeatedly...), but it is very clear "access to the data and code is nonexclusive to the authors" in line 1 ... www.aeaweb.org/journals/dat... Need an exception? See line 3, and a discussion w/ editor + me ensues.

That, or something similar, under a formal NDA, is what I do several times a year.

Sept 15, 2025, Köln 🇩🇪: Panel on Open Science - Increasing Research Transparency in Economics, @vfsecon.bsky.social annual meeting, aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2025-0...

(strictly speaking, still summer) Sept 14, 2025, Köln 🇩🇪: Practical Guidance for Open Science in Your Research @vfsecon.bsky.social annual meeting aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2025-0...

May 30, 2025, Montreal 🇨🇦 Panel on reproducibility and AI at @canadianeconoassoc.bsky.social meetings: aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2025-0...

June 27-29, 2025, Toronto 🇨🇦: I will be at EALE-SOLE, available for impromptu chats. Will find a space to do a popup AMA coffee (or drinks), stay tuned!

June 22-23, 2025, San Francisco 🇺🇸🐻: Reproducibility from Day 1 to Day T - two part presentation/tutorial at the @weai.bsky.social annual meeting. aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2025-0... Also available for chats around the conference.

June 17, 2025: Reproducibility from the data editor’s perspective in Mexico City 🇲🇽 aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2025-0... Also happy to chat separately with folks who are not attending the conference.

May 26-27, 2025: QICSS Summer School on Research Reproducibility joint with @canadianeconoassoc.bsky.social as part of pre-program for 2025 CEA meetings in Montreal, QC, Canada. 1 1/2 day workshop. aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2025-0... (you still need a passport...)

May 14, 2025: "La crédibilité de la recherche : comment améliorer la reproductibilité en sciences économiques", joint with Marie Connolly, data editor for @canadianeconoassoc.bsky.social journal (in 🇨🇦, but happy to interact in 🇺🇸) in beautiful Orford, QC aeadataeditor.github.io/talks/2025-0...

Summer is approaching, and so are various conferences. As so often, I target being available at various conferences, including presenting and answering questions. Here is a list of places and times in the next two months.

Questionnaire on the use of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data Please click the link to complete this form.

Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.

And if you deposited and saved it, don't forget to then cite it! Especially if submitting to our journals! Here's some (expansive) guidance: social-science-data-editors.github.io/guidance/Gui...

Worthwhile to attend: rdapassociation.org/event-6142604

My apologies for not posting this earlier (there's other stuff happening), but for those wrapping up their AEA Papers and Proceedings replication packages, here is some guidance aeadataeditor.github.io/aea-de-guida...

Hopefully this is a useful tool: findlostdata.org

Very good to know, thank you. How might the process work ex post? Can researchers amend their research plan to include this?