<p>I don't think JPE has suggested a specific license. However, the journal did say that the data policy is adopted from American Economic Review (AER). AER did suggest a license of Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY). 
That license allows reuse of data without asking permission (I just have to cite it). So my question is, may I also use the data released by JPE without asking permission?</p>

<p>One economic professor said if the data is specified as "replication data", then you cannot reuse it without permission.</p>

<p>The data is not specified as a "replication"</p>

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@KennyLJ I am using their data to do my own analysis, which is very different from them. Not sure if this is violating any copyright issues
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Can I use the released data on AER and JPE in my own research without permission?
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# Can I use the released data on AER and JPE in my own research without permission?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-31)

I don't think JPE has suggested a specific license. However, the journal did say that the data policy is adopted from American Economic Review (AER). AER did suggest a license of Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY).
That license allows reuse of data without asking permission (I just have to cite it). So my question is, may I also use the data released by JPE without asking permission?

One economic professor said if the data is specified as "replication data", then you cannot reuse it without permission.

The data is not specified as a "replication"

**Tags:** microeconomics, public-economics, empirical-evidence, data

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> **username_0**: @KennyLJ I am using their data to do my own analysis, which is very different from them. Not sure if this is violating any copyright issues  

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