Disclosure Policy

Please thoroughly review WEAI's Disclosure Policy. All submissions, including revisions, must be accompanied by an Original Article Disclosure Statement (download fillable PDF form and open in Acrobat to sign digitally). This is applicable even when the authors have no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose. All coauthors should provide a separate Disclosure Statement at the time of submission. The statements will also need to disclose whether IRB approval was obtained for the project, and if not, state the reason(s). Submissions that do not include these statements will be considered incomplete and may not be reviewed. 
 

Data Availability Policy

Sharing data and procedures at the publication stage enhances the value of ​the publication for authors and users. To encourage transparency and reproducibility in the research published in ​EI and CEP, WEAI has partnered with openICPSR to provide published authors a central location to deposit data and other study materials allowing other researchers to replicate analyses without having to request any additional information from the author.

Economic Inquiry requires, as a condition for publication, that the data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository such as openICPSR. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Whenever possible the scripts and other artifacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor, for example, if sharing data compromises privacy of human data, ethical standards or legal requirements. If authors are unable to share data (for example, if sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements) then authors are not required to share it and must describe restrictions in their data availability statement.

Contemporary Economic Policy expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository such as openICPSR. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their data availability statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. If sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements then authors are not expected to share it.

See the Standard Templates for Author Use to select an appropriate data availability statement for your dataset.

For complete instructions for what to include in your replication packet, visit WEAI Deposit Instructions.