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Question: has Paul Krugman made a practice of releasing his raw data? Can anyone point me to the database of tab-delimited text files behind the econometric pap
by temphn 13y ago
Question: has Paul Krugman made a practice of releasing his raw data? Can anyone point me to the database of tab-delimited text files behind the econometric papers he's written, or to any systematic attempts to replicate them? If not, should be fun to try to get a dataset out of him. Most published macroeconomics research won't stand up to attempts to replicate it (whether "pro" or "anti" austerity), if the great replication experiment in psychology is any guide:
http://psychfiledrawer.org http://psychfiledrawer.org
Basic kinds of corrections like weighting nations by population will often invalidate macroeconomic correlations.
- pessimizer 13y agoCouldn't you answer this question yourself by using the Internet? A combination of Google and other, more academic services might give you a list of papers, and by reading them, you might find datasets that are mentioned, but do not seem to be public. Then you could return to HN to ask a more specific question, or email Krugman yourself for the answers you seek. That should be fun, too.
- jbooth 13y agoFair enough, but that's way less effective as rhetoric. How do we know Krugman didn't falsify his results and murder people?