We constructed a wiki website for replication:
http://replication.uni-goettingen.de
It serves as a database of empirical studies, the availability of replication material for them and of replication studies.
It can help for research as well as for teaching replication to students. We taught seminars at several faculties internationally for which the information of this database was used. In the starting phase the focus was on some leading journals in economics. We now cover more than 2000 empirical studies and so far 172 replications. One can search for software, methods, data types, and datasets used, as well as for JEL codes. For example, studies that used EViews and have data and code available online can be found with this query.
There are 13, and 2 more if you drop the data/code restriction. For Stata there are 644, and 864 if you drop the data/code restriction.
Could you add studies for which you know EViews replication files are available online? Could you add studies that you tried to replicate or that you authored yourself? It is a wiki, so everyone can participate and contribute. Replication results can be published as replication working papers of the interdisciplinary University of Göttingen's Centre for Statistics. The website also has an option to vote which studies should be replicated – votes are anonymous.
Teaching and providing access to information will raise awareness for the need for replications, provide a basis for research about the reasons why replications so often fail and how this can be changed, and educate future generations of economists about how to make research replicable.
Please take a look at our website and register. You are also welcome to give feedback!
Do you know any economists whom you could tell about our project? Could you add any replications you know? They would then automatically be featured as latest replications on the main page until five other publications are added, so they would get more attention - so far we had more than 332,000 page views. The American Economic Association already added our website to their collection of useful resources for economists:
http://rfe.org/showCat.php?cat_id=9
IDEAS/RePEc links back to pages in the wiki that have a link to RePEc:
http://blog.repec.org/2014/07/16/economics-replication-wiki-now-on-ideas/
If you teach, please inform your students about the project or colleagues who include replication in their teaching or who may want to add their empirical studies.
In 2014, the work was presented at the Research Transparency Forum of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, the conference of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society in Toulouse and at the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association in Boston. It will next be discussed at the 2015 National Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE), Minneapolis, USA, May 27-29, 2015. I would be glad to meet whoever is interested. Please don't hesitate to forward this message or parts of it and we will be glad to answer any questions you or others may have.
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Workshop on Replication and Transparency in Economic Research
by the Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholar Initiative, with Richard Ball, Johannes Pfeifer, Edward Miguel, Jan H. Höffler, and Thomas Herndon
January 6 – 7, San Francisco, Mozilla Science Lab
The workshop will take place right after the Annual Meeting of the American Social Sciences Associations, which includes the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) at which the biggest event for job market candidate selection is held, on January 3-5, 2016. Experiencing this conference with job market can be a valuable experience for those who consider applying for an academic job after their studies. During the conference there will be a special session on Replication in Economics, also organized by those who organize the workshop.
The workshop will consist of mini-courses covering research transparency in empirical research and macro models that are neglected in the conventional economics curriculum. For young scholars it can be very useful to orient themselves by looking at how established researchers do their studies. By now there is a lot of material available but then it is often frustrating when one wants to take a look at how their analyses were done just to see that it cannot so easily be redone. This workshops intends to help young scholars to find out how to replicate others’ studies and how to archive their own research for future use and for others.
The workshop also will feature student presentation sessions, which will give Ph.D. candidates the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a collaborative environment. Applicants shall enter the title and abstract in the registration form and submit the complete version to the Institute no later than December 1, 2015. Moreover, during the joined lunch and dinner there will be ample time for social interaction with students and teachers.
by the Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholar Initiative, with Richard Ball, Johannes Pfeifer, Edward Miguel, Jan H. Höffler, and Thomas Herndon
January 6 – 7, San Francisco, Mozilla Science Lab
The workshop will take place right after the Annual Meeting of the American Social Sciences Associations, which includes the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) at which the biggest event for job market candidate selection is held, on January 3-5, 2016. Experiencing this conference with job market can be a valuable experience for those who consider applying for an academic job after their studies. During the conference there will be a special session on Replication in Economics, also organized by those who organize the workshop.
The workshop will consist of mini-courses covering research transparency in empirical research and macro models that are neglected in the conventional economics curriculum. For young scholars it can be very useful to orient themselves by looking at how established researchers do their studies. By now there is a lot of material available but then it is often frustrating when one wants to take a look at how their analyses were done just to see that it cannot so easily be redone. This workshops intends to help young scholars to find out how to replicate others’ studies and how to archive their own research for future use and for others.
The workshop also will feature student presentation sessions, which will give Ph.D. candidates the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a collaborative environment. Applicants shall enter the title and abstract in the registration form and submit the complete version to the Institute no later than December 1, 2015. Moreover, during the joined lunch and dinner there will be ample time for social interaction with students and teachers.
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