The Replication Network
Furthering the Practice of Replication in Economics
Category: GUEST BLOGS
FAFF: International Society of Pitching Research for Responsible Science
What is the International Society of Pitching Research for Responsible Science (InSPiR2eS) research network? InSPiR2eS is a globally-facing research network primarily aimed at research training and capacity building, resting on a foundation theme of responsible science. As measures of its…
Read MoreREED: The State of Replications in Economics – A 2020 Review (Part 3)
This final instalment on the state of replications in economics, 2020 version, continues the discussion of how to define “replication success” (see here and here for earlier instalments). It then delves further into interpreting the results of a replication. I…
Read MoreREED: The State of Replications in Economics – A 2020 Review (Part 2)
This instalment follows on yesterday’s post where I addressed two questions: Are there more replications in economics than there used to be? And, Which journals publish replications? These questions deal with the descriptive aspect of replications. We saw that replications…
Read MoreREED: The State of Replications in Economics – A 2020 Review (Part 1)
This post is based on a keynote presentation I gave at the Editor’s Meeting of the International Journal for Re-Views of Empirical Economics in June 2020. It loosely follows up two previous attempts to summarize the state of replications in…
Read MoreFERRARO & SHUKLA: Is a Replicability Crisis on the Horizon for Environmental and Resource Economics?
Across scientific disciplines, researchers are increasingly questioning the credibility of empirical research. This research, they argue, is rife with unobserved decisions that aim to produce publishable results rather than accurate results. In fields where the results of empirical research are…
Read MoreREED: EiR* – What’s Supporting that Fixed Effects Estimate?
[* EiR = Econometrics in Replications, a feature of TRN that highlights useful econometrics procedures for re-analysing existing research.] NOTE: All the data and code necessary to produce the results in the tables below are available at Harvard’s Dataverse: click…
Read MoreGAARDER & JIMENEZ: Replication Research on Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries
In support of recent efforts by social scientists to address the ‘reproducibility crisis’, the Journal of Development Effectiveness (JDEff) recently devoted a special issue on replication research studies in its last issue of 2019. Most journals continue to favor new…
Read MoreREED: EiR* — Replications and DAGs
[* EiR = Econometrics in Replications, a feature of TRN that highlights useful econometrics procedures for re-analysing existing research.] In recent years, DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs) have received increased attention in the medical and social sciences as a tool for…
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