Econ Project Templates: Modern, Reproducible Research in Economics

This project provides a "batteries-included" template for economists to produce fully reproducible research. It replaces fragile, manual workflows with a robust, automated pipeline.

Why Reproducibility?

Reproducibility is about your peace of mind. It means knowing that if you find a mistake in your raw data three days before submission, you can re-run your entire project—tables, figures, and paper—with a single command. It means your future self (and your co-authors) can understand and run your code on a new machine without spending a week fighting dependency hell.

Quick Start (The "Magic" Moment)

Experience the reproducibility of this template in less than five minutes:

1. Install Pixi (our only prerequisite).
2. Clone this repository.
3. Run and view the results:

# Data cleaning, analysis, plotting, etc
pixi run pytask

# View the research paper in your browser
pixi run view-paper

# View the presentation slides
pixi run view-pres

These commands automatically handle environment setup, data cleaning, analysis, and launching the output servers.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at econ-project-templates.readthedocs.io.

Contributing

We welcome suggestions on anything from improving the documentation to reporting bugs and requesting new features. Please open an issue in these cases.

Contributors

@hmgaudecker @timmens

Former Contributor and Creator of pytask

@tobiasraabe