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We were recently discussing among data editors what the oldest replication package (in Econ and Political Science) might be. I actually don’t know the answer to that. But the oldest replication package we have in the (migrated) AEA archives is...
Frankel, Jeffrey A., and Romer, David H. "Replication data for: Does Trade Cause Growth?" 1999. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113211V1
which accompanies this article:
Frankel, Jeffrey A, and David Romer. “Does Trade Cause Growth?” American Economic Review 89, no. 3 (June 1999): 379–99. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.89.3.379.
? Here: https://aeadataeditor.github.io/posts/2023-01-26-oldest-replication-package (includes reproducible code!)
@aeadata That's amazing. Thanks!
I was not aware of these replication files but I was able to replicate their results with more recent data: 1995 instead of 1985.