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GOLDSTEIN: More Replication in Economics?
[This blog originally appeared at the blogsite Development Impact] About a year ago, I blogged on a paper that had tried to replicate results on 61 papers in economics and found that in 51% of the cases, they couldn’t get the same…
Read MoreDo Research Assessment Systems like the UK’s Research Excellence Framework Discourage Replication?
[From the article “Why is so much research dodgy? Blame the Research Excellence Framework” in The Guardian] “In the UK, the Ref [Research Excellence Framework] ranks the published works of researchers according to their originality (how novel is the research?), significance…
Read MorePower Pose: The Glass is Half Full?
Recently, another sensational study from social psychology came under renewed criticism. The study, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance” , published in Psychological Science in 2010 by Dana Carney, Amy Cuddy, and Andy Yap claimed that adopting…
Read MoreTwo More Findings from Psychology Fail to Replicate
[From the article, “A Worrying Trend for Psychology’s ‘Simple Little Tricks’” from The Atlantic magazine] “In yet another setback for the field, researchers have failed to replicate two studies showing that basic techniques can reduce racial achievement gaps and improve voter…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Economist (September 7, 2016)
[From the article “Excel errors and science papers”] “A recent study in the journal Genome Biology looked at papers published between 2005 and 2015, and found spreadsheet-related errors in fully one-fifth of articles on genomics that provided supplementary data alongside…
Read MorePodcast from Science Friday on Replication
This short podcast, just 12 minutes, is worth a listen. It is an interview on Science Friday with Dan Simons, Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, and Barbara Spellman, former editor at Perspectives on Psychological Science, on a new…
Read MoreLAMPACH & MORAWETZ: A Primer on How to Replicate Propensity Score Matching Studies
Propensity Score Matching (PSM) approaches have become increasingly popular in empirical economics. These methods are intuitively appealing. PSM procedures are available in well-known software packages such as R or Stata. The fundamental idea behind PSM is that treated observations are…
Read MoreNetherlands Spending 3 Million Euros to Fund Replications
[From the website of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)] :”NWO is making 3 million euros available for a Replication Studies pilot programme. In this programme, scientists will be able to repeat research that has been carried out by others….
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