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• Outputted research should always be reproducible. See categories below for different levels of replicability
• DIME does not have rules for which formatting rules you follow as long as the formatting is consistent in a project

Formatting

Formatting requirements depends a lot on who is the audience. For example, the best practice differs a lot if we are communicating results to the beneficiaries of the project or to the research community.

Fact sheets to government counterparts and to members of the communities that we are working with can be a very efficient method to disseminate our impact evaluation results. Here is a great example of a fact sheet used for a DIME project. Regression tables formatted according to journal standards would obviously not work well in this context.

For academic context then DIME has no formatting requirements other than to follow established guidelines as much as possible. Here are examples of such guidelines:

• American Economic Review: [1]
• ShareLaTeX's collection of style guides [2]

Replicability

We all know that all our work should be replicable, especially the outputs, this section will walk you through different levels of replicability and tools for each of those levels.

DIME projects should at least have good replicability except in very special circumstances, but even then it should at least fulfill the requirements for Basic Replicability.

• No replicability
• Basic replicability
• Good replicability
• Full replicability

See more detailed definition of replicability by clicking the links above. The links above also list tools to achieve the different levels of replicability.

Version control

• GitHub
• Dated copy - but use main copy

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