Reminds me of the SISBEN situation in Colombia ("Manipulation of Social Program Eligibility") studied by Camacho and Conover: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Working paper: Software Trends Across Disciplines (evidence from 10,000 papers) arxiv.org/pdf/2504.06507

🙂 We mentioned some of those in our Table 1 (we didn't want to pick favorites between FORTRAN for the IBM 704 in 1957, FORTRAN 66, FORTRAN 77, etc, so FORTRAN isn't in the table, but still) :

Interesting! Point me to the repositories and we could expand analysis! Every exercise like ours has limitations for sure; we did not look at finance journals. Previous work found EViews, RATS, and SPSS to be on par with one another in Finance: see Fig 13.3 here www.stata-press.com/books/tywsar...

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R/Python and R/C combinations are popular

In Statistics, R remains clearly dominant:

...but in Economics, while Stata remains very popular, R has caught up to MATLAB as second most common, and the trend is towards the use of multiple statistical platforms per paper.

...there are changes over time. Though political science leaned towards Stata ten years ago, around 2019 R took the lead in many journals in that field. Both are still used. That's political science...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 How do different disciplines use statistical software? We looked at 10,000 papers. We all know a lot of economists use Stata and a lot of statisticians use R. But...

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