qje-replication-package

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# Replication Package (qje-replication-package)

## When to trigger

- The paper is heading toward acceptance and a data/code deposit is required
- You want a reproducible pipeline early, to pre-empt referee replication requests
- A reproducibility check or data editor asked for materials that regenerate every exhibit
- Raw data are restricted/proprietary and you need a disclosure-compliant plan

## Why this matters at QJE

QJE's policy: it **publishes papers only if the data are clearly documented and readily available for replication**, and authors of accepted empirical/simulation/experimental papers must, prior to publication, provide the **data, programs, and computation details** sufficient to replicate the results. These are posted to the **QJE Dataverse** (the journal's repository on Harvard Dataverse), not openICPSR — a concrete difference from the AEA journals, even though QJE explicitly **adopted the AER data availability policy**. Source: academic.oup.com/qje/pages/data_policy. Proprietary-data exemptions exist but are narrow: you must **flag proprietary data in the cover letter at submission**, and even with an approved exemption you must still deposit the **programs** (the exemption criterion is that another investigator could in principle obtain the data independently). A `README` PDF documenting each file and how to run replication is required. The durable requirement is fixed: a stranger should regenerate every number, table, and figure from your deposit. Funding/conflict disclosure follows the **AEA Disclosure Policy**.

## Package anatomy