Second in our series of announcements this week, Danila Serra of Texas A&M University, Danila Serra, is also joining as a new Co-Editor of the journal. She will be an outstanding member of our board and we are happy to have her join. Wiley Economics #EconTwitter

Many new policies going into place at Economic Inquiry. Take a look!

The WEAI Data Repository hosted by ICPSR is officially open for business! tinyurl.com/2p9hchrn All accepted papers submitted after Dec 1 of 2021 will be required to submit data prior to publication. We look forward to your help populating this archive!

Where did I get that fancy new profile image from? Take a look at EI's new cover design!

If you have not read this paper before, I highly recommend it. It is essential reading for researchers to understand how difficult it can be to replicate findings in many papers and why. Excellent work!

We are very excited to announce a new member of our editorial board. Davin Chor of Dartmouth College has joined us as a Co-Editor. Welcome Davin!

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If you are at the Western Economic Association International meetings in Portland, stop by today for these sessions on conducting reproducible research and on navigating journal requirements for data availability. WEAI Economic Inquiry

1st Session: Should journals verify reproducibility? CRRESS asks the question in first panel discussion with guido imbens, Tim Salmon and Toni Whited 😷. Register to join us on Zoom cornell.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #reproducibility #replicability

Christophe Pérignon guido imbens Tim Salmon Toni Whited 😷 The recording (first cut) is up: youtube.com/watch?v=-dc4xx…

The data editors of AEA Data Editor, The Economic Journal, The Review of Economic Studies, Canadian Journal of Economics, and WEAI Economic Inquiry launch the Data and Code Availability Standard datacodestandard.org/2022/12/15/lau… DCAS describes an appropriate replication package and helps authors comply with journals' data and code availability policies

We are excited to announce a special issue titled "On the Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics." This issue will be co-edited by Michalis Drouvelis, Abel Brodeur and Farasat A.S. Bokhari. Please see the CFP. Submissions due Jan 31, 2024. weai.org/news/view/50 #EconTwitter

At EI, we are always thankful to everyone who referees papers for us. As part of that Thanks, we also give out yearly Outstanding Review Service Awards. For 2022 those Awards go to Brian Duncan (UC Denver) and Punarjit Roychowdhury, Punarjit Roychowdhury, (Shiv Nadar). Thanks to both!

We are very happy to announce our Article of the Year for 2022. It is excellent work that we are proud to have been able to publish. Congrats to the authors, Kenneth Crouch, Robert Fairlie and Huanan Xu. You can find more details here: weai.org/news/view/51 .

Are you an economist who wants to help yourself and Ukraine? Give these advice books a look. Many people (including me) contributed to writing them. You might find something useful in one. The odds go up if you buy all 3! All proceeds go to humanitarian aid for Ukraine.

Stats from the Editor’s Report at EI. In 2022, avg time to first decision 49 days (79 for those sent out for review). Our Impact Factor rose to 1.8. In 2021 and 2022, the median number of required submissions prior to acceptance was 2. #EconTwitter

EI is looking for a few good people to join our editorial board. Current needs are in the fields of health, public, labor, education and urban. If you are interested or know of a good candidate, please see this open call for more information. weai.org/news/view/57

Two announcements. First, check out this upcoming conference in Florence! tinyurl.com/bddhp7hn . They have lined up some great keynote speakers and then they asked me too! Join us! Second, I and WEAI Economic Inquiry are going Blue: ei-sky.bsky.social & tsalmon1.bsky.social