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A Metadata Schema for Data from Experiments in the Social Sciences

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  • Cavanagh,Jack
  • Fliegner,Jasmin Claire
  • Kopper,Sarah
  • Sautmann,Anja

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The use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the social sciences has greatly expanded,resulting in newly abundant, high-quality data that can be reused to perform methods research in program evaluation, tosystematize evidence for policymakers, and for replication and training purposes. However, potential users of RCT dataoften face significant barriers to discovery and reuse. This paper proposes a metadata schema that standardizes RCT datadocumentation and can serve as the basis for one—or many, interoperable —data catalogs that make such data easily findable, searchable, and comparable, and thus more readilyreusable for secondary research. The schema is designed to document the unique properties of RCT data. Its set offields and associated encoding schemes (acceptable formats and values) can be used to describe any dataset associatedwith a social science RCT. The paper also makes recommendations for implementing a catalog or database basedon this metadata schema.

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  • Cavanagh,Jack & Fliegner,Jasmin Claire & Kopper,Sarah & Sautmann,Anja, 2023. "A Metadata Schema for Data from Experiments in the Social Sciences," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10296, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10296
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