Takeaways from the special issue on the practice of replication

W. Reed ()

No 2019-5, Economics Discussion Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: In July 2017, issued a call for papers for a special issue on "The Practice of Replication." In that call, the journal explained that there was no generally accepted procedure for how to do a replication. Likewise, there was no generally accepted standard for determining whether a replication "confirms" or "disconfirms" an original study. Accordingly, the journal called for papers to identify principles for how to do a replication and how to interpret its results; and to apply those principles in crafting a replication plan for a study of the author's choosing. The hope was that this exercise would produce some progress on "the practice of replication". The special issue is now complete with a total of eight journal articles. This commentary places the respective articles within a common framework and identifies observations and lessons learned from the respective studies.

Keywords: replication; pre-analysis plan; reproduction; repetition; extension; robustness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C18 C50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2019-5
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/191898/1/1048630900.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Takeaways from the special issue on The Practice of Replication (2019)
Working Paper: Takeaways from the Special Issue on The Practice of Replication (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:ifwedp:20195

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economics Discussion Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ().