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Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope
Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai - 2024
This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533953
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From estimation resultsto stylized facts: Twelve recommendations for empirical research in international activities of heterogeneous firms
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
firm performance; replication; within-study replication by international research teams; meta-analysis; and talking to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274662
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Stated and Revealed Inequality Aversion in Three Subject Pools
Beranek, Benjamin; Cubitt, Robin; Gächter, Simon - 2015
a replication opportunity for those papers, with two innovations: (i) a design which allows stated and revealed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513230
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The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of … replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over … methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This paper proposes an unambiguous definition of replication, one that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531710
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The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics
Huntington-Klein, Nick; Arenas, Andreu; Beam, Emily A.; … - 2020
Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in their research. We use a many-analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these decisions. Two published causal empirical results are replicated by seven replicators each. We find large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269911
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The Preference Survey Module: New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran
Kosfeld, Michael; Sharafi, Zahra - 2022
replication study in Tehran, Iran, are somewhat mixed. While quantitative items considering hypothetical versions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882582
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Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: A Cautionary Tale on the Potential Pitfalls of Density Estimators
Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael; Ostermann, Kerstin - 2021
We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597439
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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597616
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Labor Market against Gay Men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658250
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Perceptions and Practices of Replication by Social and Behavioral Scientists: Making Replications a Mandatory Element of Curricula Would Be Useful
Fecher, Benedikt; Fräßdorf, Mathis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2016
enterprise. Replication studies are necessary to detect erroneous research. Thus, the replicability of research is considered a … alike. In this case study we analyze perceptions and practices regarding replication studies in the social and behavioral …. Nevertheless, most respondents are not willing to spend their time to conduct replication studies. This situation can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479414