From the article “As a Fulbright PhD student in development economics from Brussels, my experience this past year on the Berkeley campus has been eye opening. In particular, I discovered a new movement toward improving the standards of openness and…
Read MoreFROM THE ARTICLE: “A major publisher of scholarly medical and science articles has retracted 43 papers because of “fabricated” peer reviews amid signs of a broader fake peer review racket affecting many more publications. As The Washington Post reports, BioMed…
Read MoreThe blogsite Political Science Replication summarizes the recent “scandal” in which a graduate student at UCLA (Michael LaCour) is accused of fabricating data for an article published in Science magazine, leading to its retraction. The summary includes a description of…
Read MoreProfessor Larry White of George Mason University interviews Professor Bob Reed on the status of replications in economics. Click on “Read More” then click here to listen to the podcast.
Read MoreFROM THE ARTICLE: “A political scientist on Tuesday said he was retracting a paper he’d co-authored — one with wide influence on how campaigns can change public opinion — when faced with evidence that the paper’s central finding was based…
Read MoreThe March 2015 issue of Public Finance Review is a special issue dedicated to replications in public economics. Click on “Read More” then click here.
Read MoreA special section on replication published by Progress in Development Studies, 2013: http://pdj.sagepub.com/content/current The Journal of Development Studies is about to publish a special section on replication too, some of the articles are published online already: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2013.807502#.Ui2bjz_px-U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220388.2013.807501#.Ui2b0z_px-U
Read MoreTo be held in Prague 10-12 September 2015 More information to follow.
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