Selected Compliments on the Accessibility of my Data Sets

 

Updated: May 5, 2012

 

Torsten Persson writes in his 2001 Economic Policy paper (note 4): “All empirical estimates [in my paper] are based on Rose’s original data set, which is made accessible, in a very user-friendly way, at http://haas.berkeley.edu/~arose.”

 

Jacques Melitz wrote in e-mail on April 3, 2001: “Once again, I wish to add - as I never cease saying to everyone around me - how exemplary, I think, your act of publishing of your data is, and besides, your act of also providing files explaining in detail how to duplicate your results with Stata.”

 

Ori Heffetz wrote in e-mail on Jan 28, 2002: “this might be the place for me to thank you for your generosity in making these datasets available online. as a phd economics student at princeton, i find such practice invaluably helpful for my research.”

 

Kalina Manova at Harvard wrote in e-mail on Nov 20, 2001: “I very much appreciate your allowing free use of the data you have compiled and will be sure to inform you of my results and thesis process.”

 

Volker Nitsch writes in his 2002 World Economy paper (note 4): The data set has been graciously provided by Andrew Rose (http://haas.berkeley.edu/~arose).

 

Michael Klein wrote in e-mail on Feb 12 2002: “I'd also like to mention that I really appreciate the fact that you make the data and programs so easily accessible on the web -- I think your web page is a model for what empirical researchers should do.”

 

Robert Walker wrote in e-mail on May 13, 2005: “I would second the comments of other scholars on the enormous [and selfless] contribution that you make to the research community by making your data available and your studies easily replicable.”

 

Josh Fangmeier wrote in e-mail on May 28 2007: “I must say that the dataset and outputs that you provided on your web site truly made this project possible.  As an [sic] novice of econometrics, the information you provided made this paper tremendously more doable.  If only all academics were as transparent as you.”

 

Mathew Hatson wrote in email on May 5 2012: "

Hello Dr. Rose, 

 

I have been analyzing a working version of your CU trade paper (2000) for a PS in my Trade + Econometrics classes at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and... we also looked at your work in my Euro Economics class at the University of Geneva.

 

I landed on your website and saw the UofT and T.O. high school reference, and then noticed the little Canadian Flag and through my great powers of deduction, I figured out that you are a fellow Canadian. I am originally from Ottawa... (don't shoot)... but I have a great respect for all Canadian economists, and I guess all good economists in general. 

 

Without going in to much detail, I also went south of the border for university (Cornell) and have now landed in Europe (Uni Geneva)... I am hoping to join an int. econ. PhD dept. after finishing my master's degree here next year. 

 

Anyhow, to summarize a somewhat purposeless email, I just wanted to thank you personally for your great contribution so far to the field, for your many incredible papers... and well... for the sheer volume of your work + your great website. It is a commitment that I have not seen anywhere else in my 6 years of econ studies so I really do appreciate it (I'm not sure if you or other top economists receive many fan emails, so maybe this is common or very uncommon), but in any case, I thought it was worthwhile to send. 

 

Take care, and you really are a great role model for would-be "Canuck"-economists. Something about your work diverges from the norm and your papers are much more "enjoyable" to read than the standard publication.

 

Sincerely, 

Matthew"


Morale: Please don’t complain that my data sets are inaccessible.  They aren’t.