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BROWN: How to Conduct a Replication Study – Which Tests, Not Witch Hunts
[This post is based on a presentation by Annette Brown at the Workshop on Reproducibility and Integrity in Scientific Research, held at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, on October 26, 2018. It is cross-published on FHI 360’s R&E Search for…
Read MoreREED: An Update on the Progress of Replications in Economics
[This post is based on a presentation by Bob Reed at the Workshop on Reproducibility and Integrity in Scientific Research, held at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, on October 26, 2018] In 2015, Duvendack, Palmer-Jones, and Reed (DPJ&R) published…
Read MoreCall for Replication Papers in Empirical Legal Studies
[From the website of Claremont McKenna College, USA] “Claremont McKenna College’s Program on Empirical Legal Studies (PELS) is pleased to announce the second annual Empirical Legal Studies Replication Conference to be held on Friday, April 26, 2019, in Claremont, California.” “…We…
Read MoreJournal of Economics, Race, and Policy Announces a Special Replication Issue
[From the “Call for a special issue of the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy”] “The Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (JERP) has a commitment to publishing high-quality, replication research. Accordingly, we are making a call for a special issue…
Read MoreShould Null Results Require Greater Justification?
In a recent editorial in Management Review Quarterly, the journal invited replications, and put forth the following “Seven Principles of Effective Replication Studies”: #1. “Understand that replication is not reproduction” #2. “Aim to replicate published studies that are relevant” #3….
Read MoreReplication in Economics: How Much? And What Matters?
[From the abstract of the forthcoming paper, “Replication studies in economics—How many and which papers are chosen for replication, and why?” by Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, and Gert G. Wagner, forthcoming in the journal, Research Policy] “We investigate how often replication…
Read MoreAnd How Are Things Going In Political Science?
[From the working paper “Why Too Many Political Science Findings Cannot be Trusted and What We Can Do About It” by Alexander Wuttke, posted at SocArXiv Papers] “…this article reviewed the meta-scientific evidence with a focus on the quantitative political science…
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