The Replication Network is a group of economists dedicated to promoting the practice of replication in the field of economics.
Replication Wiki
ReplicationWiki is a wiki-based service which lists and provides links to replications of empirical studies in economics, studies which have yet to be replicated, and material to assist with replication.
Impact Evaluation Replication Programme
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) Replication Grant funds replications. Funding requests are reviewed on a rolling basis. High quality applicants are invited to submit full proposals.
Adam Altmejd
Adam Altmejd is a fourth-year PhD Student at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, working mainly with behavioral/experimental economics and game theory. Currently, he is visiting the Department of Economics at Harvard University, invited by Professor David Laibson. Together with a group of researchers, he works on the…
EGAP Registry
The Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) Registry focuses on designs for experiments and observational studies in governance and politics. The registry allows users to submit an array of information via an online form. Registered studies can be viewed in the form of a pdf on the EGAP site. The EGAP registry…
Richard Ball
Richard Ball is an Associate Professor of Economics at Haverford College. His interest in research transparency grew out of his experience advising undergraduate research projects, including papers written for introductory statistics classes as well as senior theses in economics. In 2013, with colleague Norm Medeiros, he launched Project TIER (Teaching Integrity in…
Promise and Perils of Pre-Analysis Plans
Promise and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans, by Ben Olken lays out many of the items to include in a pre-analysis plan, as well as their history, the benefits, and a few potential drawbacks. Pre-analysis plans can be especially useful in reaching agreement about what will be measured and how when a partner…
Reshaping Institutions
Reshaping Institutions is a paper by Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster, and Edward Miguel that uses a pre-analysis plan to analyze the effects of a community driven development program in Sierra Leone. They discuss the contents and benefits of a PAP in detail, and include a “cherry-picking” table that shows the wide flexibility…
Pre-Analysis Plan Template
Pre-analysis Plan Template, by Alejandro Ganimian, is useful for instructors when teaching transparency methods, and for researchers themselves when developing their own pre-analysis plan. Find a .doc version of this template here. Find a .tex version here.
Ifeoluwapo Amao
Ifeoluwapo Amao works in the Research Outreach department of the National Horticultural Research Institute in Ibadan, Nigeria where she is involved in marketing and consumption studies, as well as outreach activities to horticultural stakeholders. In December 2014, she obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Agricultural Economics University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She attended a Humboldt…
Pre-Analysis Plan Checklist
Pre-analysis Plan Checklist, by David McKenzie, Lead Economist at the World Bank Development Research Group.
Abel Brodeur
Emerging Researcher Abel Brodeur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Ottawa. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Paris School of Economics. Brodeur’s current research interests center around health economics, development economics and research transparency. His current projects include an evaluation of the economic consequences of…
Christian Kaghoma
Christian Kamala Kaghoma has a PhD in Economics and he is currently working with the Université Catholique de Bukavu (UCB) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where he has been teaching for more than a decade. He is currently a Senior Lecturer (Professeur Associé) and the Dean of the faculty of…
Jan H. Höffler
Jan H. Höffler studied business science, spanish, and economics at Universität Mannheim, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Toronto and HEI, Geneva. Jan received a grant of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) with the project Replication in Empirical Economics, started the ReplicationWiki and is an editor of the Göttingen Centre of Statistics…
Stephanie Wykstra
Stephanie Wykstra is a research consultant for AllTrials USA and a freelance writer. She previously directed the Research Transparency Initiative at Innovations for Poverty Action, including managing the data repository for randomized controlled trials in the social sciences, producing guidelines for data publication, and offering training and resources on reproducible research. Before…
Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang combines data with mathematical models to understand how society and the environment influence one another. In particular, he focuses on how policy can encourage economic development while managing the global climate. In much of his work, he promotes transparency in data-based findings so they can be responsibly incorporated into public…
Dief Reagen Nochi Faha
Dief Reagen Nochi Faha is a PhD candidate at the laboratory of research and analysis in mathematical economics at the University of Yaoundé II, Soa in Cameroon. He obtained his MSc in Applied Economics from the University of Yaoundé II and MSc in Economic and Financial Engineering from the University of Rennes 1 in…
Martin Aragoneses
Martin is interested in understanding the role information technologies can have on economic development and digital innovations can have on global poverty alleviation. He finished his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley in 2014 and attended the BITSS Summer Institute that same year. Martin was inspired by the Institute’s closing talk “Data Science Meets Social…
Eva Vivalt
Eva Vivalt is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Toronto. Dr. Vivalt was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category based on her leadership founding AidGrade, a non-profit research institute that conducts open, real-time meta-analyses of economic development program evaluations. She is also the co-PI for the…
Craig McIntosh
I am the director of the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab which has been working in close coordination with UCB and BITSS. We have already raised independent money and are paying for RA time to assist faculty in making data and replication code public, and are the primary coordinating agency for Quantitative/Research…
Rachael Meager
Development economics (impact of aid interventions, microcredit, informal credit markets, competition under information asymmetries, reputational contracting), Econometrics (Bayesian statistics, evidence aggregation and inference across heterogeneous contexts, hierarchical models, regularisation and shrinkage, model selection)
Matt Woerman
Matt Woerman is a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research interests include policies and regulations affecting the U.S. electricity sector. He recently worked at Resources for the Future, an environmental economics think tank in Washington, DC, where he used…
Louis Preonas
Louis Preonas is a PhD student at University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and also a Graduate Student Researcher at the UC Energy Institute. His research interests include U.S. fossil fuel markets, firm behavior in response to environmental policy, and energy/environmental policies in the developing world.
Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business and Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at Haas. She received an AB in Economics from Harvard University and a PhD in Economics from MIT. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an…
Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang combines data with mathematical models to understand how society and the environment influence one another. In particular, he focuses on how policy can encourage economic development while managing global climate change, how natural disasters impact societies and the effectiveness of policy responses, and how environmental conditions influence social instability and…
James Rising
James Rising is a researcher at the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. He studies and develops frameworks to model the feedback loops between environmental and human systems. He hopes to use new technologies to help communities act on those insights to mitigate climate change and promote social justice. James previously…
Rachel Glennerster
Rachel Glennerster is Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Her research includes randomized evaluations of community driven development, the adoption of new agricultural technologies, and improving the accountability of politicians in Sierra Leone; empowerment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh; the behavioral economics of complying with tuberculosis medication…
Edward Miguel
Edward Miguel is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). His main research focus is African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; and interactions between health,…
Temina Madon
Temina Madon is Executive Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and provides leadership in scientific development, partnerships, and outreach. She has worked as science policy advisor for the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center, where she focused on enhancing research capacity in developing countries. She has also served as Science and…
Garret Christensen
Garret Christensen is research fellow with the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), a program of the Center for Effective Global Action. He received his PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2011 and has since conducted research for theWASH Benefits public health randomized trial for Innovations for Poverty Action and Emory…
Jennifer Sturdy
Jennifer Sturdy splits her time between BITSS and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC. At MCC, she spearheads several transparency initiatives, including the establishment of the MCC Evaluation Catalog and the MCC Disclosure Review Board for releasing de-identified, public use micro-data. Sturdy also instituted several internal protocols for strengthening the design and implementation…
Shyan Kashani
Shyan supports the design and digital presence of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS). He is working to redesign BITSS’s online resources and build an upcoming online course on research transparency. Prior to joining CEGA, Shyan interned at Khan Academy, where he helped bring a free, world class…