The paper is based on a keynote talk held at the international conference “Opening data services in the social sciences”, Belgrade, Serbia, 20/21 March 2013. Empirical social sciences strongly contribute towards a better understanding of societies, especially of those societies that undergo...

Replication is a critical component of scientific credibility as it increases our confidence in the reliability of the knowledge generated by original research. Yet, replication is the exception rather than the rule in economics. In this paper, we examine why replication is so rare and propose...

Replication is a critical component of scientific credibility as it increases our confidence in the reliability of the knowledge generated by original research. Yet, replication is the exception rather than the rule in economics. In this paper, we examine why replication is so rare and propose...

The paper is based on a keynote talk held at the international conference "Opening data services in the social sciences", Belgrade, Serbia, 20/21 March 2013. The author wishes to thank the SERSCIDA project. Empirical social sciences strongly contribute towards a better understanding of...

Um sozial-, verhaltens- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Forschungsdaten nachhaltig sichern und ggf. auch bereitstellen zu können, sind verschiedene Vorkehrungen und Maßnahmen zu treffen, die bereits bei der Planung und Durchführung von Forschungsprojekten berücksichtigt werden müssen....