Description
There is growing interest in research transparency and reproducibility in economics and other scientific fields. We survey existing work on these topics within economics and discuss the evidence suggesting that publication bias, inability to replicate, and specification searching remain widespread problems in the discipline. We next discuss recent progress in this area, including improved research design, study registration and pre-analysis plans, disclosure standards, and open sharing of data and materials, and draw on experiences in both economics and other social sciences. We discuss areas where consensus is emerging on new practices as well as approaches that remain controversial and speculate about the most effective ways to make economics research more accurate, credible, and reproducible in the future.
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Research
- A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal policies as a natural experiment
- Ethnically biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
- Pre-results Review at the Journal of Development Economics: Lessons Learned
- Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
- Promoting an Open Research Culture
- Research Transparency is on the Rise in Economics
- Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Preanalysis Plan
- Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research
Talks
- Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) Summer Institute 2015
- Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the Social Sciences - Research Transparency Forum
- Innovations in Open Science in Economics
- Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
- Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
- Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
- Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
- Research Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics and Beyond
- Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-analysis Plan (UC Berkeley)
- Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Preanalysis Plan (Stanford)
- Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on External Aid and Local Collective Action
- Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics Research
- Transparency, Reproducibility and the Credibility of Economics Research