Do economists replicate?

J Ankel-Peters, N Fiala, F Neubauer - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reanalyses of empirical studies and replications in new contexts are important for scientific
progress. Journals in economics increasingly require authors to provide data and code …

Do Preregistration and Preanalysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias? Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement

A Brodeur, NM Cook, JS Hartley… - Journal of Political …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
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 …

Promoting reproducibility and replicability in political science

A Brodeur, K Esterling, J Ankel-Peters… - Research & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reviews and summarizes current reproduction and replication practices in
political science. We first provide definitions for reproducibility and replicability. We then …

Causal claims in economics

P Garg, T Fetzer - 2024 - econstor.eu
We analyze over 44,000 economics working papers from 1980-2023 using a custom
language model to construct knowledge graphs mapping economic concepts and their …

A protocol for structured robustness reproductions and replicability assessments

J Ankel-Peters, A Brodeur, A Dreber, M Johannesson… - 2024 - econstor.eu
Robustness reproductions and replicability discussions are on the rise in response to
concerns about a potential credibility crisis in economics. This paper proposes a protocol to …

[HTML][HTML] Breaking bad? Playing the fool and constructing the 'bad researcher'in entrepreneurship

RT Harrison - Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2024 - Elsevier
How to deal with grand challenges and the crisis of knowledge production and their
implications for entrepreneurial research and practice is a topic of growing interest. In this …

Incentives and the Replication Crisis in Social Sciences: A Critical Review of Open Science Practices

L Balafoutas, J Celse, A Karakostas… - Journal of Behavioral and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The replication crisis in the social sciences has revealed systemic issues undermining the
credibility of research findings, primarily driven by misaligned incentives that encourage …

Discontinuous distribution of test statistics around significance thresholds in empirical accounting studies

X Chang, H Gao, W Li - Journal of Accounting Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Examining test statistics from articles in six leading accounting journals, we detect
discontinuities in their distributions around conventional significance thresholds (p‐values of …

What taxpayers, governments and tax economists do–and what they should do

J Slemrod - Fiscal Studies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The distinction between positive economics–describing economic programmes, situations
and conditions as they exist–and normative economics–prescribing policies–has a long …

Replication code availability over time and across fields: Evidence from the German Socio‐Economic Panel

L Fink, J Marcus - Economic Inquiry, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Providing replication code is an inexpensive way to facilitate reproducibility. However, little
is known about the extent of replication code provision. Therefore, we examine the …