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EBERHARDT: Revisiting the Causal Effect of Democracy on Long-run Development
[This Guest Blog is a repost of a blog by Markus Eberhardt, published at Vox – CEPR Policy Portal] Recent evidence suggests that a country switching to democracy achieves about 20% higher per capita GDP over subsequent decades. This column…
Read MoreBÉDÉCARRATS et al.: Lessons from Replicating an RCT
In 2015, Crépon, Devoto, Duflo and Pariente (2015, henceforth CDDP), published the results of a randomized control trial (RCT) in a special issue of the AEJ: Applied Economics. CDDP evaluated the impact of a microcredit program conducted in Morocco with…
Read MoreResources for Incorporating Pre-registration and Replication in the Classroom
Nicole Janz (University of Nottingham, @PolSciReplicate) has a set of great resources for those looking for an example of a pre-registration assignment for undergraduates (this for a political science course). The slides to accompany the assignment are here. The template…
Read MoreA Course Syllabus in Social Science Replication
[From the syllabus for “POLI 229: Social Science Replication”, taught by Gareth Nellis at the University of California San Diego] “The purpose of this class is to learn how to do cutting-edge empirical research in the social sciences by replicating…
Read MoreHow to Win Friends (or at Least Not Maximize Enemies) and Influence People When Doing Replications
[From the paper “Good and Bad Replications in Political Science: How Replicators and Original Authors (Should) Talk to Each Other” by Nicole Janz and Jeremy Freese, prepared for presentation at the MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019] “We propose two main…
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