The Project TIER Dataverse:

Archiving and Sharing Replicable Student Research

Richard Ball, Associate Professor of Economics Haverford College

Norm Medeiros, Associate Librarian

Haverford College

Lightning talk for the Dataverse Community Meeting Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science

June 11, 2015

www.haverford.edu/TIER Project TIER is generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Project TIER Developing protocols for documenting research that make it possible to replicate

statistical results easily and exactly

Teaching students to follow such protocols to document their own work:

Research papers for statistical methods classes

Theses and dissertations

Other independent projects

Disseminating methods of teaching transparent and replicable research to faculty at

other institutions

More information is available at www.haverford.edu/TIER.

The Directory Structure of the TIER Documentation Protocol

Illustrated by a recent senior thesis:

Fox, Casey. “NBA Contracts and Recency Bias: An Investigation into

Irrationality in Performance Pay Markets.” Senior thesis in economics,

Haverford College, 2015.

Thesis and complete replication documentation available at: https://osf.io/ncg4v/?view_only=56f8e23f3fc84c828e4e14c0162ea67b

The top-level directories:

Inside the “Original Data and Supporting Information” and “Processing and Analysis” directories: