Meta‐analysis has become the conventional approach to synthesizing the results of
empirical economics research. To further improve the transparency and replicability of the …

This paper reviews the rapidly growing empirical literature on international tax avoidance by
multinational corporations. It surveys evidence on the main channels of corporate tax …

Replicability is an important feature of scientific research, but aspects of contemporary
research culture, such as an emphasis on novelty, can make replicability seem less …

We explain when and how staggered difference-in-differences regression estimators,
commonly applied to assess the impact of policy changes, are biased. These biases are …

We study the rapidly growing literature on the causal effects of financial education programs
in a meta-analysis of 76 randomized experiments with a total sample size of over 160,000 …

We conduct meta-analysis on a comprehensive set of studies of the impacts of US K-12
public school spending on student outcomes–estimating average marginal impacts and …

Estimates of the social cost of carbon are the yardstick for climate policy targets. However,
there is great uncertainty and we do not know how estimates have evolved over time. Here I …

The credibility revolution in economics has promoted causal identification using randomized
control trials (RCT), difference-in-differences (DID), instrumental variables (IV) and …

Nudge interventions have quickly expanded from academic studies to larger implementation
in so‐called Nudge Units in governments. This provides an opportunity to compare …

This paper discusses two important limitations of the common practice of testing for
preexisting differences in trends (“pre-trends”) when using difference-in-differences and …