C Communication

C.1 Medium

C.1.1 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

C.1.2 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.

C.1.3 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

C.2 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)