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The Replication Network Explains Itself
In a blog posted at BITSS (Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences), TRN co-founder Bob Reed explains the motivation behind TRN. While there is an increasing (better, slowly increasing!) number of journal outlets for replication studies, the real…
Read MoreWANTED: Replications of the Most Influential Empirical Papers in Financial Economics
FROM THE JOURNAL: “The Critical Finance Review is planning to publish issues dedicated to replicating the most influential empirical papers in financial economics. It is explicitly not the goal of these replication issues either to prove or to disprove the…
Read MoreBENJAMIN WOOD and ANNETTE BROWN: What 3ie Is Doing in the Replication Business
What’s the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) doing in the replication business? 3ie is mostly known in the development community as a funder of impact evaluations and systematic reviews. But our leadership always envisioned a role for replication research…
Read MoreB.D.MCCULLOUGH: The Reason so Few Replications Get Published Is….
When preparing to give a talk at a conference recently, I decided to update some information I had published a few years ago. In McCullough (2009), I estimated that 16 economics journals had a mandatory data/code archive (archives that require…
Read MoreMAREN DUVENDACK: Replications in Economics: A Progress Report
Economists aspire to adopt practices of the natural sciences where replication is seen as a crucial and necessary activity. In the natural sciences results are seldom given much credibility unless they have been replicated. Replication contributes in a crucial way…
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