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How to Certify Reproducibility for Confidential Data. In France.
[From the article “Certify reproducibility with confidential data” by Christophe Pérignon, Kamel Gadouche, Christophe Hurlin, Roxane Silberman, and Eric Debonnel, published in Science] “Many government data, such as sensitive information on individuals’ taxes, income, employment, or health, are available only…
Read MoreIs It Persistence Over Time? Or Over Space?
[From the article “The standard errors of persistence” by Morgan Kelly, published at Vox – CEPR Policy Portal] “Does the slave trade continue to affect trust between people in Africa? Does a country’s prosperity depend on the genetic diversity of…
Read MoreLagged Variables Make Good Instruments…Not!
[From the working paper, “Lagged Variables as Instruments” by Yu Wang and Marc Bellemare, posted at http://www.marcfbellemare.com%5D “…applied econometricians often settle on less-than-ideal IVs in an effort to “exogenize” x … One such less-than-ideal identication strategy is the use of what…
Read MoreTwenty Years and Over a Thousand Citations, But It Couldn’t Be Reproduced
[From the commentary “Novelty in science should not come at the cost of reproducibility” by Andrew Holding, published in The FEBS Journal] “Oestrogen receptor (ER) cycling is a dogma of the Oestrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer field.” “For nearly 20…
Read MoreUpdate from the AEA Data Editor on Replication and Reproducibility
[From the presentation slides on “Replication and Reproducibility in Social Sciences and Statistics: Context, Concerns, and Concrete Measures” by Lars Vilhuber, AEA Data Editor, presented at the 2019 Western Economics Association International meetings] NOTE: Just so there is no misunderstanding,…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Psychology Today (June 28, 2019)
[From the article “Second-Guessing Predictions: When to trust scientific predictions—and when to ignore them” by Alexander Danvers] “One of the key reforms of the Credibility Revolution in psychology research is the use of preregistration: Scientists write down what they predict will happen…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Slate (June 20, 2019)
[From the article “We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.” by Kevin Arceneaux, Bert Bakker, Claire Gothreau, and Gijs Schumacher, published in Slate] “Our story starts in 2008, when a group of researchers…
Read MoreReproducibility in Registered Reports: Lots of Room for Improvement
[From the paper, “Analysis of Open Data and Computational Reproducibility in Registered Reports in Psychology” by Pepijn Obels, Daniel Lakens, Nicholas Coles, & Jaroslav Gottfried, posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “Recently, scholars have started to empirically examine the extent to which data…
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