Communication#

Medium#

Email#

We use email (yes, we know 🙄) through a mailing list

  • Ask lots of questions

  • Communicate with each other (answer each other’s questions)

When you expect to be absent/ cannot handle a request in a timely fashion

  • email the AEA Data Editor and assistants

Jira#

For pre-publication tasks, we also use Jira.

  • you can comment on Jira in the web interface

  • in the Jira app on your phone

  • by response email

When you are assigned a task in Jira, and do not expect to be able to start work on it immediately, please let us know ASAP.

Github#

We have a wiki with guidance, suggestions, tips and tricks.

  • look there first for answers

  • if you get an answer by email, or figure it out yourself, add it to the FAQ

Language#

Don’t write anything you wouldn’t want your British aunt (or your mom, or your dad) to see. Write cleanly and concisely.

  • much of what we write will be seen by others

  • much of what we write is public (Wiki)

  • the reports you write should be concise, and shareable (we expect to do minimal editing before sending it out to authors)

For reference: Authors who have seen the documents written by this group

  • Esther Duflo (Nobel Prize Economics 2019)

  • John Abowd (Chief Scientist at the US Census Bureau)

  • Janet Yellen (former Chair of the Federal Reserve Board)

  • Thomas Piketty (famous economist)