American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests
American Economic Review
vol. 107,
no. 5, May 2017
(pp. 37–40)
Abstract
Examining the most heavily cited publications in labor economics from the early 1990s, I show that few of over 3,000 articles, citing them directly, replicates them. They are replicated more frequently using data from other time periods and economies, so that the validity of their central ideas has typically been verified. This pattern of scholarship suggests, beyond the currently required depositing of data and code upon publication, that there is little need for formal mechanisms for replication. The market for scholarship already produces replications of non-laboratory applied research.Citation
Hamermesh, Daniel S. 2017. "Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests." American Economic Review, 107 (5): 37–40. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171121Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- A14 Sociology of Economics
- J00 Labor and Demographic Economics: General