The Replication Network
Furthering the Practice of Replication in Economics
Category: NEWS & EVENTS
Journal of Development Economics to Trial Pre-Results Review
[From the blog “Registered Reports: Piloting a Pre-Results Review Process at the Journal of Development Economics” by Andy Foster, Dean Karlan, and Ted Miguel posted at Development Impact] “…the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) now offers authors the opportunity to have their…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Buzzfeed (February 26, 2018)
[From the article, “Sliced and Diced: The Inside Story of How an Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data into Viral Studies” by Stephanie M. Lee in Buzzfeed] “Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Nature (February 21, 2018)
[From the article, “How to make replication the norm” published by Paul Gertler, Sebastian Galiani and Mauricio Romero in Nature] “To see how often the posted data and code could readily replicate original results, we attempted to recreate the tables…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Atlantic (February 1, 2018)
[From the article, “In Science, There Should Be a Prize for Second Place” published by Ed Yong in The Atlantic] “This Monday, the editors of PLOS Biology—the flagship journal of Public Library of Science, a nonprofit publisher—published an editorial saying…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: Nature (January 23, 2018)
[From the article “Robust research needs many lines of evidence” by Marcus Munafò and George Davey Smith, published in Nature] “…replication alone will get us only so far. In some cases, routine replication might actually make matters worse. Consistent findings could take…
Read MoreAmerican Economic Association Announces Data Editor
[From an email sent on January 29, 2018 by Peter Rousseau, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Economic Association, to AEA Members ] “The AEA has completed its search for the position of Data Editor, and is pleased to announce that Lars…
Read MoreRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Calls for Replications To Be a “Normal Part of Science”
[From the article “Make replication studies a normal part of science,” posted at the website of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences] “The systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science. That is the…
Read MoreDON’T: Aim for significance. DO: Aim for precision
[From the recent working paper, “The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability” by Vasishth, Mertzen, Jäger, and Gelman posted at PsyArXiv Preprints] “…when power is low, using significance to decide whether to publish a result leads to a proliferation of exaggerated…
Read MoreShould Science Do More Replications? It Depends
[From the recent working paper, “The Costs and Benefits of Replication Studies” by Coles, Tiokhin, Scheel, Isager, and Lakens, posted at psyarxiv.com/c8akj] “The debate about whether replication studies should become mainstream is essentially driven by disagreements about their costs and benefits,…
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