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Is It a Replication? A Reproduction? A Robustness Check? You’re Asking the Wrong Question

Posted on 1st April 2020 by replicationnetwork

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[Excerpts taken from the article, “What is replication?” by Brian Nosek and Tim Errington, published in PloS Biology] “Credibility of scientific claims is established with evidence for their replicability using new data. This is distinct from retesting a claim using…

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Category: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Brian Nosek, Conceptual replications, Definition, Direct replications, Generalizability tests, replication, Reproducibility, Robustness checks, Tim Errington

The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative: Excerpts from the Executive Report

Posted on 31st August 2019 by replicationnetwork

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[Excerpts taken from the report “The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative: Investigating Immigration and Social Policy Preferences using Meta-Science” by Nate Breznau, Eike Mark Rinke, and Alexander Wuttke, posted at SocArXiv Papers] “A burning question is what impact immigration and immigration-related events…

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Category: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Brady and Finnigan (2014), Crowdsourced Replication Initiative, Extension, Immigration, replication, Robustness checks, Silberzahn et al (2018), Social Policy Preferences

EBERHARDT: Revisiting the Causal Effect of Democracy on Long-run Development

Posted on 3rd May 2019 by replicationnetwork

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[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…

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Category: GUEST BLOGS Tags: Democracy, Development, Economic Growth, Heterogeneous effects, replication, Robustness checks, Sample selection