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REED: More on Self-Correcting Science and Replications: A Critical Review

NOTE: This is a another long blog. Sorry about that! TL;DR: I provide a common framework for evaluating 5 recent papers and critically compare them. All of the papers have shortcomings. I argue that the view that the psychology papers represent…

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REED: Is Science Self-Correcting? Evidence from 5 Recent Papers on the Effect of Replications on Citations

NOTE: This is a long blog. TL;DR: I discuss 5 papers and the identification strategies each use in their effort to identify a causal effect of replications on citations. One of the defining features of science is its ability to…

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META-SCIENCE GATHERING: November 16-18, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Interested in discussing how to improve scientific practice? Join us at UCMeta’s second Meta-Science Colloquium! The colloquium will take place on Wednesday 16th – Friday 18th of November on the campus of the University of Canterbury (Meremere Building, Room 236)….

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INVITATION: Join the Many-Economists Project!

This is an invitation to join a project that aims to improve the quality of research in applied microeconomics by examining the choices that researchers make. We are hoping to recruit up to 200 participants. Full participants in this project…

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HIRSCHAUER, GRÜNER, & MUßHOFF: Fundamentals of Statistical Inference: What is the Meaning of Random Error?

This blog is based on the book of the same name by Norbert Hirschauer, Sven Grüner, and Oliver Mußhoff that was published in SpringerBriefs in Applied Statistics and Econometrics in August 2022. Starting from the premise that a lacking understanding…

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Be a Part of the Next Big Thing! Join the Multi100 Project

The Multi100 project is a crowdsourced empirical project aiming to estimate how robust published results and conclusions in social and behavioral sciences are to analysts’ analytical choices. The project will involve more than 200 researchers. The Center for Open Science…

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REED & WU: EiR* – Missing Data

[* EiR = Econometrics in Replications, a feature of TRN that highlights useful econometrics procedures for re-analysing existing research.] NOTE: This blog uses Stata for its estimation. All the data and code necessary to reproduce the results in the tables…

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BRODEUR: Launching the Institute for Replication (I4R)

Replication is key to the credibility and confidence in research findings. As falsification checks of past evidence, replication efforts contribute in essential ways to the production of scientific knowledge. They allow us to assess which findings are robust, making science…

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IREE Scores a Top Score in TOP Factor

The International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics (IREE) is the only journal in economics solely dedicated to publishing replications. Recently, IREE was evaluated by TOP Factor. TOP Factor is an initiative launched by the Center for Open Science to…

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On the Past and Present of Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics

[Excerpts are taken from the article “Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics” by Lars Vilhuber, published in Harvard Data Science Review] “In this overview, I provide a summary description of the history and state of reproducibility and replicability in the academic field…

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