Examples

The following are examples of research published to journals with transparency and reproducibility policies that would benefit from TRACE.

RDC¶

Mogstad, Magne, Alexander Torgovitsky, and Christopher R. Walters. 2021. “The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables.” American Economic Review 111(11): 3663–98. Paper Replication package

• Uses confidential data from the BLS National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

• Researchers can gain access to the BLS data, but the environment has changed since the original authors had access (access protocols have changed).

Berger, David, Kyle Herkenhoff, and Simon Mongey. 2022. “Labor Market Power.” American Economic Review 112(4): 1147–93. Replication package

• Uses confidential Census data, passed disclosure avoidance review

Yeh, Chen, Claudia Macaluso, and Brad Hershbein. 2022. “Monopsony in the US Labor Market.” American Economic Review 112(7): 2099–2138. Paper Replication package

• Uses confidential Census data, passed disclosure avoidance review

Large or specialized compute¶

Rudik, Ivan. 2020. “Optimal Climate Policy When Damages Are Unknown.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12(2): 340–73. Paper Replication package

• Original execution required >20,000 core hours

Desmet, Klaus et al. 2021. “Evaluating the Economic Cost of Coastal Flooding.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 13(2): 444–86. Paper Replication Package

• Requires 12 cores, 512GB RAM and ~3TB fast local storage. Run time was >12 hours.

Webb, Clayton; Linn, Suzanna; Lebo, Matthew, 2019, “Replication Data for: Beyond the Unit Root Question: Uncertainty and Inference”, Paper Replication package

• Simulations were performed on the University of Kansas High Performance Compute Cluster with each job requesting 4 nodes with 20 cores per node.

• Odum could not reproduce results on UNC cluster due to software incompatibilities, but was successful using Docker on a large VM.

Sanford, Luke, 2021, “Replication Data for: Democratization, Elections, and Public Goods: The Evidence from Deforestation”, Replication package

• Used UCSD’s Social Science Research and Development Environment (120 cores, 1TB RAM). Estimated runtime 18-24 hours.

Twitter¶

Oklobdzija, Stan; Kousser, Thad; Butler, Daniel, 2022, “Replication Data for: Do Male and Female Legislators Have Different Twitter Communication Styles?”, Paper Replication package

• Uses Twitter data, which cannot be redistributed.

International data¶

Hjortskov, Morten; Andersen, Simon Calmar; Jakobsen, Morten, 2018, “Replication Data for: Encouraging Political Voices of Underrepresented Citizens through Coproduction. Evidence from a Randomized Field Trial”. Replication package

• Confidential data from Statistics Denmark

• Danish data is only accessible upon application and on servers hosted by Statistics Denmark.

Hager, Anselm; Hilbig, Hanno, 2019, “Replication Data for: Do Inheritance Customs Affect Political and Social Inequality” Paper Replication package

• Uses data from German SOEP (a survey created by the German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin, a private research institute)

• Access requires signing a use agreement and prevents redistribution. Accessible data differ depending on location of researcher.

• Additional geolocated data can only be accessed on-site at DIW Berlin.

Bonhomme, Lamadon, and Manresa, forthcoming. “A distributional Framework for matched employer-employee data”. Econometrica. Paper Github repo

• Docker runs with synthetic data

• Docker is designed to run on confidential data from Sweden, accessible only upon application and from within Europe.

NOTE: The use of Docker (=TRS) would make generating a TRO relatively straightforward, subject to the same caveats as the FSRDC case.

IPUMS¶

Jia, Ning, Raven Molloy, Christopher Smith, and Abigail Wozniak. 2023. “The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions.” Journal of Economic Literature. Paper

• This paper uses IPUMS USA data accessed via API.

• An unofficial Github is available to demonstrate how the API is used to obtain extracts. A private repo provided by the authors has a copy of the extracted data.