Our Research Philosophy and Code of Conduct

Author

Jonathan Graves

Published

1 May 2024

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The jlab is dedicate to making excellent undergraduate researchers, and creating real research. This means that we:

  1. Follow the American Economic Association’s Code of Professional Conduct which includes:
    • “[H]onesty, care, and transparency in conducting and presenting research; disinterested assessment of ideas; acknowledgement of limits of expertise; and disclosure of real and perceived conflicts of interest.”
    • “[C]ivil and respectful discourse.”
    • “[E]qual opportunity and fair treatment for all economists.”
    • “[S]upporting participation and advancement in the economics profession by individuals from all backgrounds, including particularly those that have been historically underrepresented.”
  2. Follow the standards of Econometric Society for replicable research which includes:
  1. Follow UBC’s Research Ethics processes and requirements, especially when collecting data that works with human subjects.

We also always follow our code of conduct when we work with one another.

Code of Conduct

Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and organizers pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Our Standards

All participants in our events and communications are expected to show respect and courtesy to others. All interactions should be professional regardless of platform: either online or in-person. In order to foster a positive and professional learning environment we encourage the following kinds of behaviours in all project-related events and platforms.

Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

  • Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
  • Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
  • Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
  • Accepting responsibility for our mistakes, and learning from the experience
  • Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

  • The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
  • Insulting or derogatory comments, or personal attacks
  • Public or private harassment
  • Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
  • Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
  • the display of sexual or violent images
  • Nonconsensual or unwelcome physical contact
  • Sustained disruption of talks, events or communications
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or exclusionary jokes
  • Excessive swearing
  • Continuing to initiate interaction (including photography or recording) with someone after being asked to stop
  • Publication of private communication without consent

Enforcement Responsibilities

Project leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take immediate corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Project leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the project leaders responsible for enforcement via email. All project leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant version 2.1 and the DSCI 100 Code of Conduct