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Will You Be in Washington, D.C. on September 10th? Check This Out.
[Excerpts taken from an announcement posted on the BITSS website] “‘Transparency, Reproducibility, and Credibility of Economics Research’” is a research symposium hosted collaboratively by the World Bank Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) group, BITSS, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie),…
Read MoreTurn Your Lack of Confidence Into a Co-Authored Publication!
[From a blog on the “Loss of Confidence Project” posted at https://lossofconfidence.com/.] “The aim of this project is to destigmatize declaring a loss of confidence in one’s own research finding within the field of psychology. We are collecting statements of loss…
Read More2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Award Winners Announced
Each year, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) awards prizes to researchers who have made substantial contributions to improving transparency in research practices. The prizes are names after Ed Leamer (economics) and Robert Rosenthal (psychology) through…
Read MorePPT Slides for Garret Christensen’s Presentation on Research Transparency in Economics
Recently, GARRET CHRISTENSEN, project scientist at BITSS, reviewed the literature on research transparency at a talk given at the Western Economic Association meetings. You can access his slides here.
Read MoreOkCupid: Where Love and Data Transparency Don’t Match
Welcome to the tale of Emil Kirkegaard, a Danish postgraduate student, who has achieved worldwide notoriety for publishing data from the dating site, OkCupid. The story is well-told in a Vox article by Brian Resnick (click here). In addition to a…
Read MoreRICHARD BALL: Introducing Project TIER
Project TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research) is one of the many initiatives launched within the last several years—a number of which have been featured in previous TRN guest blogs—that seek to strengthen standards of research transparency in the social…
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