Journal-based replication of experiments: An application to “Being Chosen to Lead”
提出期刊主导的复制机制,即在论文接收后发表前强制进行复制实验,并以《公共经济学杂志》的试点经验说明该机制对实验室实验易于实施。
Recent large-scale replications of social science experiments provide important information on the reliability of experimental research. Unfortunately, there exist no mechanisms to ensure replications are done. We propose such a mechanism: journal-based replication, in which the publishing journal insists on a replication attempt between acceptance and publication. We discuss what we learned from a proof-of-concept journal-based replication at the Journal of Public Economics. Our experience indicates that journal-based replication would be relatively straightforward to implement for laboratory experiments.