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  • Introduction

Reproducibility when data are confidential

  • What are the goals?
  • Goal
  • Why bother?
  • What is confidential data?
  • File organization
  • To start at the end: the final replication package
  • Versioning
  • The README as a lab notebook
  • Code from raw data to output
  • Keeping on top of provenance
  • Provenance of confidential data
  • Disclosure avoidance: plan for it
  • Secrets in the code
  • Confidential code
  • Avoiding confidential data in your code
  • Software
  • Preserving replication packages
  • Wrapping up

Appendix

  • Appendix
  • Environments in Stata
  • Repository
  • Suggest edit
  • Open issue
  • .md

What are the goals?

Contents

  • Journals require replication packages
  • What is a replication package?
  • Example of deposit

What are the goals?#

Journals require replication packages#

Journals with data and code availability policies

AEA policy image

What is a replication package?#

  • AEA Data and Code Availability policy

  • Data and Code Availability Standard

  • AEA Data and Code Repository

Example of deposit#

Open ICPSR image

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  • What is a replication package?
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By Lars Vilhuber, with contributions by Laurel Krovetz

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