Introductions and motivation

We introduce the various modules, talk about best practices, describe what we mean by replication package, and illustrate practically using a toy example.

• Introductory slides

Topics

• Why worry about reproducibility?
  • Implementing Increased Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics (🎥 Presentation video)
• Best practices, importance of reproducibility, and important habits
• What is a replication package?
• A very imperfect example

Some References to Illustrate Certain Problems

Making up data

For kicks:

• https://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scientific-journals-0414

Seriously:

• https://datacolada.org/118
• https://datacolada.org/98

2025:

• https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record

Retracted:

• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac6638

and its data:

• https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/100037/version/V8/view

On a positive note: Pre-registration

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science)#cite_note-64

But only if you add a PAP:

• https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730455

But a PAP is really just an early reproducible template for your paper!

Ethics: - https://www.advarra.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-institutional-review-boards/

Data permanence, or absence thereof:

• https://www.datarescueproject.org/
• https://www.datarescueproject.org/usaid-dhs-report/