[From an email sent on January 29, 2018 by Peter Rousseau, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Economic Association, to AEA Members ]

“The AEA has completed its search for the position of Data Editor, and is pleased to announce that Lars Vilhuber of Cornell University has been appointed. Lars will work with the AEA journal editors and Executive Committee to develop and implement methods to maximize replicability and reproducibility of research findings published in AEA journals. Such methods may involve some pre-publication verification of materials provided by authors, but will also encourage incorporating basic principles of replicability into researchers’ workflows and address the increasing reliance on restricted-access data. More information on Lars’ work can be found at http://lars.vilhuber.com.”