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This article is a report from the AEA Data Editor, who is responsible for archiving and curating research data for the American Economic Association (AEA) journals. They conduct reproducibility checks, provide guidance for authors, and promote data availability and reuse. The report discusses progress at the AEA Randomized Controlled Trials Registry and highlights issues such as incomplete data availability and delays in processing. The AEA Data Editor aims to improve documentation and provide authors with information to facilitate reproducible practices. They work with other providers of scientific infrastructure to enhance support for replicability. The report acknowledges individuals and organizations that have contributed to the data editor team and emphasizes the importance of transparency and reproducibility in research. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) data editor in promoting reproducible research and archiving research data. It discusses topics such as prepublication reproducibility checks, infrastructure for verification of reproducibility, and challenges encountered in ensuring data availability and computational reproducibility.

The article reports on the process of archiving and curating research data for the economic journals of the American Economic Association (AEA) based on the 2019 Data Editor's report. Topics discussed include update of the Data and Code Availability Policy as announced by the AEA on July 16, 2019, assessment rounds and revisions for completed manuscripts, and the post-publication modifications.

The article discusses the need for economics profession to participate actively in the debate on privacy protection. Topics mentioned include the roles of economists to address the changes in the way confidential data are made available for research, problems associated with traditional statistical disclosure limitation for social scientific research, and the components to consider when evaluating confidentiality protection mechanisms.

The article presents a report from the data editor of the American Economic Association (AEA) in dissemination of robust research findings, exposing them to the scrutiny of peers. The short- and medium-term changes that economists might expect when publishing their research are explored. Other topics include the implementation of the improved transparency of research, the transparent method to describe all data and code, and the pre-publication verification of reproducibility.

The article reports on the rules governing manuscript publishing with the economic journals of the American Economic Association (AEA) under its Data and Code Availability Policy which was updated on July 16, 2020. Topics discussed include the need to document data and code used in the manuscript which makes it nonexclusive to the authors, the need to archive data and programs in the AEA Data and Code Repository, and the verification of all information in the manuscript by the AEA data editor.