Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE)

2022 - 2026

Current editor(s): David A. Jaeger, Maren Duvendack, W. Robert Reed

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2026, volume 5

Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A Replication Study of Pettersson-Lidbom (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008) No 2026-1, 8 pages

Martin Korpi and Erik Lakomaa

Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A Reply to Martin Korpi and Erik Lakomaa (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2026) No 2026-2, 6 pages

Per Pettersson-Lidbom

2025, volume 4

The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa. A Replication Study of Nunn and Wantchekon (American Economic Review, 2011) No 2025-1, 12 pages

Giulio Zanella

Languages and Future-oriented Economic Behavior— Experimental Evidence for Causal Effects. A Reply to Clist (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2025) No 2025-10, 7 pages

Ian Ayres, Tamar Kricheli-Katz and Tali Regev

Why High-Order Polynomials Should Not Be Used in Regression Discontinuity Designs. A Comment on Gelman and Imbens (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2019) No 2025-11, 16 pages

Melle R. Albada

Stable Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity. A Reply to Albada (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2025) No 2025-12, 4 pages

Andrew Gelman and Guido Imbens

Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion? A Replication Study of Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Demography, 2014) No 2025-2, 21 pages

Beatrice Baaba Tawiah and Valentin Schiele

Drivers of Youth Outsiderness in European Labour Markets. A Comment on Marques and Salavisa (Socio-Economic Review, 2017) No 2025-3, 10 pages

Svenja Flechtner and Torsten Heinrich

Why don't Firms Hire Young Workers during Recessions? A Replication of Forsythe (The Economic Journal, 2022) No 2025-4, 30 pages

Jonathan Créchet, Jing Cui, Barbara Sadaba and Antoine Sawyer

Public Infrastructure and Economic Development: Evidence from Postal Systems. A Replication Study of Rogowski et al. (American Journal of Political Science, 2022) No 2025-5, 10 pages

Florian Neubauer, Julian Rose and Jörg Peters

Bitcoin Adoption and Beliefs in Canada. A Comment on Daniela Balutel, Christopher Henry, Jorge Vásquez, and Marcel Voia (Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022) No 2025-6, 13 pages

Leo Van Hove

Bitcoin Adoption and Beliefs in Canada. A Reply to Van Hove (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2025) No 2025-7, 14 pages

Daniela Balutel, Christopher Henry, Jorge Vásquez and Marcel Voia

Not All Oil Price Shocks Are Alike. A Replication Study of Kilian (American Economic Review, 2009) No 2025-8, 27 pages

Rich Ryan and Nyakundi Michieka

The Common Problem of Bad Controls in Tests of the Linguistic Savings Hypothesis. A Comment on Ayres et al. (PNAS, 2023) and related literature No 2025-9, 27 pages

Paul Clist

2024, volume 3

Why You Should Never Use the Hodrick-Prescott Filter. A Comment on Hamilton (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018) No 2024-1, 17 pages

Alban Moura

Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Four Field Experiments. A Replication Study of Bold et al. (American Economic Review, 2022) No 2024-2, 17 pages

Ryan McWay, Karim Nchare and Pu Sun

Migration, Diversity, and Economic Growth. A Replication Study of Bove and Elia (World Development, 2017) No 2024-3, 18 pages

Bianca Balsimelli Ghelli and Luigi Ventura

Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists. A Replication Study of Autor, Katz, and Kearney (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008) No 2024-4, 26 pages

Corinne Stephenson

Historical Communist Party Strength and Modern Party Loyalty. A Replication Study of Barceló (PNAS, 2021) No 2024-5, 27 pages

Edmund J. Malesky and Trung-Anh Nguyen

Does Proactive Policing Really Increase Major Crime? A Replication Study of Sullivan and O'Keeffe (Nature Human Behaviour, 2017) No 2024-6, 34 pages

Aaron Chalfin, David Mitre-Becerril and Morgan C. Williams

Omitted Variable Bias and Wartime Legacies. A Reply to Malesky and Nguyen (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2024) No 2024-7, 39 pages

Joan Barceló

Need for Cognition, Cognitive Load, and Forewarning do not Moderate Anchoring Effects. A Replication Study of Epley & Gilovich (Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2005; Psychological Science, 2006) No 2024-8, 42 pages

Lukas Röseler, Hannah L. Bögler, Lisa Koßmann, Sabine M. Krueger, Sabrina L. C. Bickenbach, Ricarda Bühler, Jasmin della Guardia, Lisa-Marie A. Köppel, Jarl Möhring, Susanne Ponader, Konstantin Roßmaier and Jessica Sing

Erratum No 2024-9, 4 pages

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2023, volume 2

Giving and taking in dictator games – differences by gender? A replication study of Chowdhury et al. (Southern Economic Journal, 2017) No 2023-1, 7 pages

Korbinian von Blanckenburg, Eva Tebbe and Anja Iseke

Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility. A Verification and Reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009) No 2023-2, 15 pages

Victor Gay

Knowledge Transfers from Multinational to Domestic Firms: Evidence from Worker Mobility. A Replication Study of Poole (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013) No 2023-3, 30 pages

Stefanie Haller, Eoin Flaherty and Ragnhild Balsvik

The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment. A Replication Study of Atwood (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022) No 2023-4, 15 pages

Mara Barschkett, Mathias Huebener, Andreas Leibing, Jan Marcus and Shushanik Margaryan

2022, volume 1

The Relationship between Government and Private Consumption: A Replication Study of Fiorito and Kollintzas (European Economic Review, 2004) No 2022-1, 24 pages

Zhongchen Song

The Possible Unemployment Cost of Average Inflation Below a Credible Target. A Replication Study of Svensson (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015) No 2022-2, 21 pages

Ramy Oraby

Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States. A Comment on Karadja and Prawitz (Journal of Political Economy, 2019) No 2022-3, 13 pages

Per Pettersson-Lidbom

A Proposed Hybrid Effect Size Plus p-Value Criterion. A Comment on Goodman et al. (The American Statistician, 2019) No 2022-4, 15 pages

Peter Pütz, Arne Kramer-Sunderbrink, Robin Tim Dreher, Leona Hoffmann and Robin Werner