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REED: An Open Invitation to Give Your Perspective on “The Practice of Replication”
In September of this year, the journal Economics: The Open Access, Open Assessment E-Journal published a series of Discussion Papers for a special issue on “The Practice of Replication”. The motivation behind the special issue came from the following two…
Read MorePARASURAMA: Why Overlapping Confidence Intervals Mean Nothing About Statistical Significance
[NOTE: This is a repost of a blog that Prasanna Parasurama published at the blogsite Towards Data Science]. “The confidence intervals of the two groups overlap, hence the difference is not statistically significant” The statement above is wrong. Overlapping confidence…
Read MoreMCSHANE & GAL: Statistical Significance and Dichotomous Thinking Among Economists
[Note: This blog is based on our articles “Blinding Us to the Obvious? The Effect of Statistical Training on the Evaluation of Evidence” (Management Science, 2016) and “Statistical Significance and the Dichotomization of Evidence” (Journal of the American Statistical Association,…
Read MoreSUTCH: Lesson Learned from Replicating Piketty — How Not To Do Economic History
[NOTE: This post refers to the article “The One Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the United States” by Richard Sutch. It appears in the current issue of the journal Social…
Read MoreGRUNOW: Say Hello to IREE – A New Economics Journal Dedicated to the Publishing of Replication Studies
Replications are pivotal for the credibility of empirical economics. Evidence-based policy requires findings that are robust and reproducible. Despite this, there has been a notable absence of serious effort to establish the reliability of empirical research in economics. As Edward…
Read MoreGRUNOW: Notes from a Workshop: “Replications in Empirical Economics – Ways Out of the Crisis”
“Next year, this topic should not be discussed in a pre-conference workshop but in the opening plenum of the conference!” This statement by a young researcher not only concluded the workshop but also gave bright prospects to replications in Economics….
Read MoreCHU, HENDERSON, AND WANG: US Food Aid — Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes
[NOTE: This post is based on the paper, “The Robust Relationship between US Food Aid and Civil Conflict”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017] Replication can often be thought of as a useful tool to train graduate students or as a…
Read MoreWEICHENRIEDER: FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis Wants Your Insignificant Results!
There is considerable concern among scholars that empirical papers face a drastically smaller chance of being published if the results looking to confirm an established theory turn out to be statistically insignificant. Such a publication bias can provide a wrong…
Read MoreBUTERA: A Novel Approach for Novel Results
[NOTE: This post refers to the article “An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science: With an Application to the Public Goods Game” by Luigi Butera and John List. The article is available as a working paper…
Read MoreISO-AHOLA: On Reproducibility and Replication in Psychological and Economic Sciences
[This blog is a summary of a longer treatment of the subject that was published in Frontiers in Psychology in June 2017. To read that article, click here.] Physicists have asked “why is there something rather than nothing?” They have theorized that…
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