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A computational and robustness reproduction of "Ramadan fasting increases leniency in judges in Pakistan and India"

Wu, Victor Y. - 2026

Mehmood et al. (2023) estimate the effect of Ramadan fasting hours on judicial decisions using case-level data from Pakistan and India. Using exogenous variation in fasting intensity due to the Islamic lunar calendar and latitude, the authors find that Muslim judges are significantly more likely...

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A Computational and Robustness Reproduction of "Ramadan Fasting Increases Leniency in Judges in Pakistan and India"

Wu, Victor Y. - 2026

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A comment on "Network formation and efficiency in linear-quadratic games: An experimental study"

Alapini, Gefry B.; Djima, Jesugnon E.; Zhazhin, Kirill - 2026

We replicate Horváth (2025), experimentally studying link formation and effort in a linear-quadratic game with positive externalities. Across five treatments, subjects exert 38-97 percent more effort than the Nash benchmark yet create too few links, depressing payoffs. In groups of five, the...

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It must be very hard to publish null results

Briggs, Ryan C.; Mellon, Jonathan; Arel-Bundock, Vincent - 2026

Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to...

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Non-robustness in log-like specifications

Fitzgerald, Jack; Adema, Joop; Fiala, Lenka; Kujansuu, Essi - 2026

Recent literature shows that when regression models are estimated on variables transformed with 'log-like' functions such as the inverse hyperbolic sine or ln(Z + 1) transformations, one can obtain (semi-)elasticity estimates of any magnitude by linearly re-scaling the input variable(s) before...

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Corporate opportunity waiver laws did not produce disloyal managers

Geng, Heng; Hau, Harald; Liu, Pengfei - 2026

Corporate Opportunity Waiver (COW) laws permit firms to suspend fiduciary duties related to corporate opportunities. Fich, Harford, and Tran (2023) argue that these laws reduced firm innovation and lowered corporate valuation for research-intensive firms. However, we find that over 90% of the...

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Computational reproducibility and robustness of empirical economics and political science research between 2022 and 2023

Brodeur, Abel - 2026

This systematic and large-scale reproduction effort tests the reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science. We reproduced original analyses and conducted robustness checks of 110 articles recently published in leading economics and political science journals (all of which...

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Replication guidance for "Disloyal Managers and Shareholder Wealth"

Fich, Elizier M.; Harford, Jarrad V. T.; Anh L. Tran - 2026

This document provides clarifications and guidance for researchers seeking to replicate the analyses in our paper. This is important as we identified some items in the published text and the code where additional clarity would be helpful. While none of these affect our substantive conclusions,...

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The power of carbon pricing - a comment on Döbbeling-Hildebrandt et al. (2024) and its press release

Piseddu, Elisa; Brodeur, Abel; Rose, Julian; Sievert, … - 2026

Döbbeling-Hildebrandt et al. (2024, DH2024) conduct a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of carbon pricing. DH2024's abstract concludes that 17 of 21 schemes evaluated in the literature produced substantial emissions reductions. A subsequent press release was headed: "Carbon pricing works"....

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The power of carbon pricing : a comment on Döbbeling-Hildebrandt et al. (2024) and its press release

Piseddu, Elisa; Brodeur, Abel; Rose, Julian; Sievert, … - 2026

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Computational reproducibility of Heiserman & Simpson (2023)

Torka, Ann-Kathrin; Wallrich, Lukas; Wang, Jingze - 2026

We report a computational reproducibility assessment of Heiserman and Simpson (2023), who examined the causal effects of workplace discrimination on employees' work effort across five experiments (total analytic N = 1,041) and a manager survey (N = 107). Using the authors' publicly available...

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Replication report: a comment on "Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes"

Hartmann, Sven Alfred; Huang, Yue - 2026

This replication study revisits Attanasio et al. (2015), which examines the effects of conditional cash transfers on preventive health care utilization and child health outcomes in Colombia. Using the original data and replication files, we successfully reproduce all the main tables and figures...

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