TRAINING For Reproducibility Verification

❗ This page is for Cornell-based students applying to work with the AEA Data Editor.

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Training will occur mostly virtually, through a combination of required self-study and live Zoom meetings.

• The live part of the training will take place on Day 1 in person (no exceptions). Additional meetings will happen on the following days using Zoom.
• If your application to the LDI Replication Lab was accepted, you will be receiving information soon.
• Training is open to anybody, for free, but employment is only based on invitation after application.
• All the remaining information here is open to anybody.
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General Training Schedule

Training happens three times a year:

• week prior to start of Fall classes (around Aug 16)
• week prior to start of Spring classes (around Jan 17)
• sometime prior to May exams (around April 22)

Day 1 is always a full day of training, and may occur on a weekend.

Next training will be January 19, 2025.

Applying

Applications are open approximately 4-6 weeks prior to the training day, and close approximately 10 days prior to the training day. For more information, see https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/labor-dynamics-institute/student-employment-opportunities.

Prior to Training

Please have a look at the list of tasks that should be accomplished before the first meeting.

Tentative Agenda

The training will start with an intensive (in person) day of lectures/discussions, followed by exercises that you will do on your own, with daily touch-base meetings over Zoom.

If you have not received an invitation and you think you should have, contact LDI (ldi@cornell.edu).

Time	August 24, 2024 (Location: TBD)
8:00	Breakfast
9:00	Introduction
10:00	Reproducible Practices, Template README
11:00	Data provenance, Data Citations
12:00	Lunch Break
13:00	What will you be doing in the Lab
14:00	Command Line/Git
15:00	A prototypical replication report
16:00	A walkthrough of the Workflow
17:00	How to run Stata
18:00	End

• as needed: Email questions

Test cases and peer mentoring

Tentative Scheduled days:

• Day 1: August 26
• Day 2: August 29
• Day 3: Sept 5
• Day 4: Sept 9

Test cases

Test cases are worked through, and jointly handled, including with repeated peer mentoring by senior (experienced) RAs in the Lab. Three (non-consecutive) days are set aside for the peer-mentoring and walk-throughs, but work on these test cases can be done any time (adapted to individual class and exam schedules). We strongly suggest doing these immediately after the in-person training, however, as experience has shown that those who delay too long will ultimately struggle later in their work.

• each test article should take you no more than 5 hours of work (decreasing as you progress)
  • Test article 1: Data is available, Stata
  • Test article 2: No data is available, only “dry” analysis
  • Test article 3: Data is available, Matlab

Live Peer group mentoring with existing replicators

• Day 1, 17:30 (first test article) (Zoom) Ilona, Marina
• Day 2, 17:30 (second test article) (Zoom) Gary, Ilanith
• Day 3, 17:30 (third test article and general Q&A) (Zoom) Marina, Gary

Schedule

Items that are bolded are live meetings. Items that are italicized are in informal groups with peers, but live (in person or on Zoom). Other items are on your own time, but the time slot is the suggested time you should be doing them.

Time	Day 1 (Zoom)	Day 2 (Zoom)	Day 3 (Zoom)	Day 4
8:00-9:00	Start on first article (Zoom)	Follow-up on first test article, introduce second article	Follow-up on second test article, introduce third test article	Follow-up on all test articles Wrap-up of training, next steps (Zoom)
(self-paced)	Work on first test article	Work on second article	Work on third article
17:30- 18:30	(Peer mentoring)	(Peer mentoring)	(Peer mentoring)
	Finish first test article	Finish second test article	Finish third test article

Full Training Materials

Please go to https://labordynamicsinstitute.github.io/ldilab-manual/ for the full training materials.