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AEA To Have a Session on “Replications in Economics” at the Annual Meeting in January 2016
The upcoming annual meeting of the American Economic Association will be held in San Francisco on January 3-5, 2016. The preliminary program was recently released and features a session on “Replications in Economics.” To learn more, click here.
Read MoreShould Journals Publish Self-Replications?
This article from Discover highlights a self-replication by leading researchers investigating the relationship between oxytocin and trust. These researchers reported not being able to replicate their own, previously published study. Click here to read the article. While the subject itself…
Read MoreA Brief History of Replication Efforts
FROM THE ARTICLE: “Worries about irreproducibility – when researchers find it impossible to reproduce the results of an experiment when it is rerun under the same conditions – came to the fore again last week when a landmark effort to…
Read MoreBut Not as Good as Psychologists?
The website FiveThirtyEight has a thoughtful post reflecting on the recent study in psychology in which 100 experimental studies were replicated . At least two points are worth highlighting. First, despite the concern about p-hacking, it turns out that one…
Read MoreWe Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us
FROM THE ARTICLE: “We studied publication bias in the social sciences by analyzing a known population of conducted studies—221 in total—in which there is a full accounting of what is published and unpublished. … Strong results are 40 percentage points more…
Read MoreResults from a Massive Study on Replication of Psychology Research
FROM THE ARTICLE: “We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psychology journals using high-powered designs and original materials when available. Replication effects were half the magnitude of original effects, representing a substantial decline. Ninety-seven percent…
Read MoreAt Least We’re Better Than Sociologists?
In a recent blog on orgtheory.net, Cristobal Young reports: “We conducted a small field experiment as part of a graduate course in statistical analysis. Students selected sociological articles that they admired and wanted to learn from, and asked the authors…
Read MoreBerkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) Announces Large Cash Prizes
BITSS announces the Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science. There are two prize groups. The first is for young researchers who either evidence transparency in their own research or have researched on the subject of transparency. The second group is…
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