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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

What Is Meant by "Replication" and Why Does It Encounter Resistance in Economics?

  • Maren Duvendack
  • Richard Palmer-Jones
  • W. Robert Reed
American Economic Review
vol. 107, no. 5, May 2017
(pp. 46–51)
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Abstract

This paper discusses recent trends in the use of replications in economics. We include the results of recent replication studies that have attempted to identify replication rates within the discipline. These studies generally find that replication rates are relatively low. We then consider obstacles to undertaking replication studies and highlight replication initiatives in psychology and political science, behind which economics appears to lag.

Citation

Duvendack, Maren, Richard Palmer-Jones, and W. Robert Reed. 2017. "What Is Meant by "Replication" and Why Does It Encounter Resistance in Economics?" American Economic Review, 107 (5): 46–51. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171031

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JEL Classification

  • A14 Sociology of Economics