If you’re doing any kind of empirical work in Economics, you probably have a huge, messy folder containing a mix of
.csv
, .dta
, .xlsx
, etc.) in various states of merge-ness and
cleanliness..doc(x)
files, but I’ve
seen lots of LaTeX lately as well, and being a plain-text format, this is a
huge boon to reproducible research.A really simple research workflow (start with data, make some figures, make some summary statistics, and run some models) might look like the following:
But of course that’s not clear when looking at the .zip
file you send your
coauthor.