Journal-based replication of experiments: An application to Being Chosen to Lead

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Drazen, Allan; Dreber, Anna; Ozbay, Erkut Y.; Snowberg, Erik
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Stockholm School of Economics; University of Innsbruck; University of British Columbia; National Bureau of Economic Research; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104482
• 发表日期: 2021
• 关键词: replication; reliability; experiments; Journal-based replication

摘要

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. CO 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).