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Is It Persistence Over Time? Or Over Space?
[From the article “The standard errors of persistence” by Morgan Kelly, published at Vox – CEPR Policy Portal] “Does the slave trade continue to affect trust between people in Africa? Does a country’s prosperity depend on the genetic diversity of…
Read MoreUpdate from the AEA Data Editor on Replication and Reproducibility
[From the presentation slides on “Replication and Reproducibility in Social Sciences and Statistics: Context, Concerns, and Concrete Measures” by Lars Vilhuber, AEA Data Editor, presented at the 2019 Western Economics Association International meetings] NOTE: Just so there is no misunderstanding,…
Read MoreExperts Are Not Know-It-Alls (Experimentally Speaking)
[From the paper “Stability of experimental results: Forecasts and evidence” by Stefano DellaVigna and Devin Pope, an NBER Working Paper] “How robust are experimental results to changes in design? And can researchers anticipate which changes matter most? We consider a…
Read MoreEBERHARDT: 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…
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