Berkeley Initiative for
Transparency in the Social Sciences

Upcoming Events

Catalyst workshop: Open Science for Early Career Researchers in Health
Elaine Toomey and colleagues are organizing Open Science in Health Research, a two-day introductory workshop for early career researchers on April 11-12, 2019 at the …
Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) – Location TBD, USA
RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools and best practices for transparent and reproducible social science research. The curriculum is developed and delivered by …

Opening up the analysis behind Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax plan
3 days ago
Press release: BERKELEY, CA (Wednesday, March 13, 2019) -- BITSS collaborated with UC Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman to produce a fully reproducible version of their policy report …
Three reasons in favor of transparent, reproducible, and ethical research practices
3 weeks ago
By Fernando Hoces de la Guardia (BITSS) and Sebastián Martínez (Inter-American Development Bank) This post is cross-posted on the IDB Impact blog and the CEGA blog. You can read it …
The Persistence of False Paradigms in Low-Power Sciences
3 weeks ago
By Pascal Michaillat*, Brown University It is commonly believed that the lack of experimental evidence typical in the social sciences slows but does not prevent the replacement of existing theories …

Olivier Simard-Casanova
Olivier is a PhD student working with (and on) agent-based models in economics. He is also the founder of Le Signal Économie, the largest Francophone website dedicated to explain economics to the general public (operated by Aléryon Science). Through Le Signal Économie and Aléryon Science, he also have several meta-research projects …

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