Registering studies with the AEA Registry (For RCTs and longitudinal studies)
The purpose of registration is to provide a public record of all studies, which helps to combat publication bias (i.e., the skew to seeing positive rather than null results). All of ECONS’ randomized trials should be registered on the AEA site. The required AEA trial registration is pretty basic, but one can optionally include a detailed pre-analysis plan.

 Our objectives:
• Providing guidance for ECONS-affiliated researchers on data-sharing:

We suggest to follow this manual for data publication. 
• Curating data to make it useable:

For our collaborating researchers, we offer ECONS research support for:

1. Data curation: For all studies that we upload to our repository, we check the data to make sure variables are labeled, ensure that the code runs and produces tables/figures, confirm that proper documentation and metadata are included, and double-check that no personally identifiable information (PII) is released.

2. Code checks: We offer to run the code and check to see that it reproduces the tables in the article before publication.  This fee-based service is particularly for ECONS researchers who are submitting their data and code in accordance with a journal data-sharing requirement. (See for example AER’s requirement).