Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data and What It Suggests

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hamermesh, Daniel S.
• 署名单位: University of London; Royal Holloway University London; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171121
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 37-40
• 关键词: employment

摘要

There is a paucity of hard-science style replication in applied economics (Hamermesh 2007), although a few role models have used data that others had made available to re-examine conclusions that had appeared solid enough to pass muster with editor(s) and referees. My questions here are whether the profession can or should produce more pure replications, whether the market for economic research has created good substitutes for formal replication, and what the incentives are for this kind of work. To provide an empirical basis for the discussion, I first examine the citation histories of leading articles in empirical labor economics published between 1990 and 1996, thus with at least 20-year citation histories.