The Replication Network
Furthering the Practice of Replication in Economics
Category: NEWS & EVENTS
How Could This Happen?
[From the article “A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers” by Ed Yong, published in The Atlantic] “In 1996, a group of European researchers found that a certain gene, called SLC6A4, might influence a person’s risk of depression. It was a blockbuster discovery at…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Vox (May 17, 2019)
[From the article “This economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal: Here’s how that might save science” by Kelsey Piper, published in Vox] “Most new publications, upon their launch, seek to promote their content as novel, surprising,…
Read MoreControl Variables Don’t Have to Have the Right Signs
[From the blog “Don’t Put Too Much Meaning Into Control Variables” by Paul Hünermund, posted at his website, p-hunermund.com] “It’s commonplace in regression analyses to not only interpret the effect of the regressor of interest, D, on an outcome variable, Y, but also…
Read MoreWondering How to Write a Pre-Analysis Plan? Simulate it.
[From the blog “Better pre-analysis plans through design declaration and diagnosis” by Graeme Blair, Jasper Cooper, Alexander Coppock, and Macartan Humphreys, posted at BITSS] “Pre-analysis plans (PAPs) are used by researchers to register a set of analyses before they learn…
Read MoreIn Two Decades, Will We Look Back And Wonder At All the Flawed Research?
[From the article, “Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility”, by Dorothy Bishop, published in Nature] “More than four decades into my scientific career, I find myself an outlier among academics of similar age and seniority: I strongly identify with…
Read MoreDo You Use Clustered Standard Errors? You Should Read This
[From the working paper, “How Cluster-Robust Inference Is Changing Applied Econometrics” by James MacKinnon, posted as a Queen’s University Working Paper] “Whenever the observations can plausibly be grouped into a set of clusters, it has become customary, indeed often mandatory,…
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