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Why Don't More Social Scientists Share Their Data?

It's not malevolent. But the results of data secrecy can be.

While we're on the subject of Reinhart and Rogoff, Tyler Cowen has a nice little post on "Who shares data". Basically, most economists don't share data, and the ones who do are more likely to be full professors with tenure and a clear personal committment to sharing.

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