Open Access to Data: An Ideal Professed but Not Practised

Mueller-Langer, Frank; Andreoli-Versbach, Patrick

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Open Access to Data: An Ideal Professed but Not Practised

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Mueller-Langer, Frank
MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Max Planck Society;

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Andreoli-Versbach, Patrick
MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Max Planck Society;

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Mueller-Langer, F., & Andreoli-Versbach, P. (2013). Open Access to Data: An Ideal Professed but Not Practised. Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law Research Paper, No. 13-07.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-773D-E

Abstract

We provide evidence for the status quo in economics with respect to data sharing using a unique data set with 488 hand-collected observations randomly taken from researchers' academic webpages. Out of the sample, 435 researchers (89.14%) neither have a data&code section nor indicate whether and where their data is available. We find that 8.81% of researchers share some of their data whereas only 2.05% fully share. We run an ordered probit regression to relate the decision of researchers to share to their observable characteristics. We find that three predictors are positive and significant across specifications: being full professor, working at a higher-ranked institution and personal attitudes towards sharing as indicated by sharing other material such as lecture slides.