Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research
综述了经济学及其他科学领域在提升研究透明度和可重复性方面的进展,讨论了出版偏见、无法复制和规范搜索等问题,并展望了提高经济学研究可信度的有效途径。
There is growing interest in enhancing 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 in the discipline. We next discuss recent progress in this area, including through improved research design, study registration and pre-analysis plans, disclosure standards, and open sharing of data and materials, drawing 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 credible in the future.