In a blog posted at BITSS (Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences), TRN co-founder Bob Reed explains the motivation behind TRN.  While there is an increasing (better, slowly increasing!) number of journal outlets for replication studies, the real surprise has been how few economists submit replication research to journals.  Reed quotes Joop Hartog’s experience at Labour Economics as an example of “they built it, but nobody came.”  To read more, click here.