Flexibility in the design, analysis and interpretation of scientific studies creates a multiplicity
of possible research outcomes. Scientists are granted considerable latitude to selectively …

A decade ago, the term “research transparency” was not on economists' radar screen, but in
a few short years a scholarly movement has emerged to bring new open science practices …

Preregistration is regarded as an important contributor to research credibility. We investigate
this by analyzing the pattern of test statistics from the universe of randomized controlled trial …

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly prominent in economics, with pre-
registration and pre-analysis plans (PAPs) promoted as important in ensuring the credibility …

The replication crisis in the social sciences has revealed systemic issues undermining the
credibility of research findings, primarily driven by misaligned incentives that encourage …

The current publication system in economics has encouraged the inflation of positive results
in empirical papers. Registered Reports, also called Pre-Results Reviews, are a new …

Placebo tests provide incentives to underreport statistically significant tests, a form of
reversed p‐hacking. We test for such underreporting in 11 top economics journals between …

Clinical trials are routinely preregistered. In psychology and the social sciences, however,
only a small percentage of studies are preregistered, and those preregistrations often …

This paper estimates the effect of financial sponsorship of clinical trials on reported drug
efficacy, leveraging the insight that the exact same pairs of drugs are often compared in …

What is the purpose of pre-analysis plans, and how should they be designed? We model the
interaction between an agent who analyzes data and a principal who makes a decision …