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Open Access to Data: An Ideal Professed but not Practised
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Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
Abstract
We provide evidence for the status quo in economics with respect to data sharing using a unique data set with 488 hand-collected observations randomly taken from researchers' academic webpages. Out of the sample, 435 researchers (89.14%) neither have a data&code section nor indicate whether their da... view more
We provide evidence for the status quo in economics with respect to data sharing using a unique data set with 488 hand-collected observations randomly taken from researchers' academic webpages. Out of the sample, 435 researchers (89.14%) neither have a data&code section nor indicate whether their data is available. We find that 8.81% of researchers share some of their data whereas only 2.05% fully share. We run an ordered probit regression to relate the decision of researchers to share to their observable characteristics. We find that three predictors are positiv and significant across specifications: being full professor, working at a higher-ranked institution and personal attitudes towards sharing as indicated by sharing other material such as lecture slides.... view less
Keywords
data access; data exchange; open access
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
Data sharing; data availibility; open science
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
10 p.
Series
RatSWD Working Paper Series, 215
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75362
Status
Published Version; reviewed
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Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications