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  1. Computational reproducibility of "The impact of presidential appointment of judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?"
    Published: July 2024
    Publisher:  Institute for Replication, Essen, Germany

    We computationally reproduce the central findings in Mehmood (2022), which studied the effect of a 2010 reform in Pakistan replacing the presidential appointment of high-court judges with peer appointments. Mehmood leveraged judicial records... more

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    We computationally reproduce the central findings in Mehmood (2022), which studied the effect of a 2010 reform in Pakistan replacing the presidential appointment of high-court judges with peer appointments. Mehmood leveraged judicial records interpreted and coded by lawyers in Pakistan at the levels of cases, districts, benches, and individual judges. We successfully execute all Stata code in the author's replication archive without any errors, then translate and execute that code in R, again finding no serious errors. Consequently, we reproduce the article's main findings from regressions in Tables 2-4. Additionally, we successfully reconstruct the primary treatment variables of these regressions, after corresponding with the author to clarify precisely how to do so. We then replicate the main findings from regressions in Tables 2-10. Finally, we identify several minor errors which left the article's findings intact. Overall, this report reveals no serious defects in Mehmood (2022). We publicly archive our replication code and a spreadsheet of our results.

     

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    Contributor: Mehmood, Sultan (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks)
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    hdl: 10419/300276
    Series: I4R discussion paper series / Institute for Replication ; no. 135
    Subjects: comparative politics; judicial politics; rule of law; constitutions; replication; computational social science; Pakistan
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  2. Social status and unethical behavior
    two replications of the field studies in Piff et al. (2012)
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Netspar, Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement, [Tilburg]

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    Series: Array ; 2024, 015 (01)
    Subjects: social class; socioeconomic status; prosocial behavior; ethical behavior; replication
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  3. A protocol for structured robustness reproductions and replicability assessments
    Published: August 2024
    Publisher:  Institute for Replication, Essen, Germany

    Robustness reproductions and replicability discussions are on the rise in response to concerns about a potential credibility crisis in economics. This paper proposes a protocol to structure reproducibility and replicability assessments, with a focus... more

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    Robustness reproductions and replicability discussions are on the rise in response to concerns about a potential credibility crisis in economics. This paper proposes a protocol to structure reproducibility and replicability assessments, with a focus on robustness. Starting with a computational reproduction upon data availability, the protocol encourages replicators to prespecify robustness tests, prior to implementing them. The protocol contains three different reporting tools to streamline the presentation of results. Beyond reproductions, our protocol assesses adherence to the pre-analysis plans in the replicated papers as well as external and construct validity. Our ambition is to put often controversial debates between replicators and replicated authors on a solid basis and contribute to an improved replication culture in economics.

     

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    Series: I4R discussion paper series / Institute for Replication ; no. 143
    Subjects: replication; reproducibility; robustness; research transparency; meta-science
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  4. Do radical-right parties use descriptive representation strategically?
    a replication of Weeks et al. (2023)
    Published: September 2024
    Publisher:  Institute for Replication, Essen, Germany

    When do populist radical-right parties (PRRP) foster the (descriptive) representation of women? In a recently published paper, Weeks et al. (2023) coin the concept of 'strategic descriptive representation'. When facing electoral struggles, PRRP would... more

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    When do populist radical-right parties (PRRP) foster the (descriptive) representation of women? In a recently published paper, Weeks et al. (2023) coin the concept of 'strategic descriptive representation'. When facing electoral struggles, PRRP would exploit the existing gender gap and strategically increase the descriptive representation of women to attract female votes and fare better in the election. Using data on 58 elections across 19 countries, the authors test their argument and find conclusive evidence supporting it. In this paper, we offer a replication of the study. First, we assess the numerical reproducibility of the published findings ('verification'). Second, we investigate the 'robustness' of the findings and evaluate the results under alternative model specifications. While our replication study identifies minor issues with the verification and some of themodel specifications, itmost importantly shows that the main results of the paper are driven by a single outlier. The paper's key finding is hence contingent on the inclusion of a single observation (French Front National in 2012), which is a questionable observation as it only elected two MPs, one of whom was a woman. Additionally, this woman's election was seemingly caused by a combination of idiosyncratic factors discussed in the study. Once the case is excluded from the analysis the key model parameter shrinks close to zero and loses its statistical significance. Accordingly, in light of our findings, there is no clear evidence supporting strategic descriptive representation and electoral pressures do not seem sufficient to encourage PRRP to increase their share of female representatives. Correcting this empirical finding has important implications for both understanding PRRP's electoral strategies and women's representation.

     

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    hdl: 10419/302283
    Series: I4R discussion paper series / Institute for Replication ; no. 149
    Subjects: descriptive representation; women; populist radical-right; replication; robustness; small-N studies
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  5. Mass reproducibility and replicability
    a new hope
    Published: April 2024
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness... more

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    This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we uncover a high rate of fully computationally reproducible results (over 85%). Second, excluding minor issues like missing packages or broken pathways, we uncover coding errors for about 25% of studies, with some studies containing multiple errors. Third, we test the robustness of the results to 5,511 re-analyses. We find a robustness reproducibility of about 70%. Robustness reproducibility rates are relatively higher for re-analyses that introduce new data and lower for re-analyses that change the sample or the definition of the dependent variable. Fourth, 52% of re-analysis effect size estimates are smaller than the original published estimates and the average statistical significance of a re-analysis is 77% of the original. Lastly, we rely on six teams of researchers working independently to answer eight additional research questions on the determinants of robustness reproducibility. Most teams find a negative relationship between replicators' experience and reproducibility, while finding no relationship between reproducibility and the provision of intermediate or even raw data combined with the necessary cleaning codes.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 16912
    Subjects: reproduction; replication; research transparency; open science; economics; political science
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  6. The consequences of narrow framing for risk-taking
    a stress test of myopic loss aversion
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Narrow bracketing in combination with loss aversion has been shown to reduce individual risk-taking. This is known as myopic loss aversion (MLA) and has been corroborated by many studies. Recent evidence has contested this notion indicating that... more

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    Narrow bracketing in combination with loss aversion has been shown to reduce individual risk-taking. This is known as myopic loss aversion (MLA) and has been corroborated by many studies. Recent evidence has contested this notion indicating that MLA's applicability is confined to highly artificial settings. Given the impact of these findings, we reevaluated the evidence on MLA involving a total of 2,245 university students, thereby achieving substantially higher statistical power than in almost all previous studies. To clarify inconsistencies in the literature, specifically under more realistic investment environments, we systematically modified the seminal study design by Gneezy and Potters (1997) to include five key adjustments. These involved realistic, down-scaled returns, return compounding, and extended investment horizons. Contrary to some prior studies that have raised doubts about the robustness of MLA, our results-which are highly robust to analytical heterogeneity-consistently document the presence of MLA across all experimental conditions. Our findings substantiate the widespread applicability of MLA and underscore the benefits of disclosing aggregated returns in practical financial decision-making contexts.

     

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    Series: Working papers in economics and statistics ; 2024, 05
    Subjects: myopic loss aversion; narrow framing; risk-taking; meta science; replication
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 88 Seiten), Illustrationen
  7. Revisiting Boehmer et al. (2021)
    recent period, alternative method, different conclusions
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  GERAD, HÉC Montréal, Montréal (Québec), Canada

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    Series: Les cahiers du GERAD ; G-2024, 25 (March 2024)
    Subjects: Retail investor; retail order imbalance; return predictability; quote midpoint method; replication
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 19 Seiten)
  8. Just in time?
    a temporal analysis of the initiation of legislation in coalition governments
    Published: March 2024
    Publisher:  Institute for Replication, Essen, Germany

    In this paper, we explore the reproducibility of the König et al. (2022) paper on the timing of bill initiation under coalition governments and validate its scope condition by expanding the analysis to an additional government and country, namely the... more

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    In this paper, we explore the reproducibility of the König et al. (2022) paper on the timing of bill initiation under coalition governments and validate its scope condition by expanding the analysis to an additional government and country, namely the United Kingdom's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of 2010 to 2015. We find that König et al. (2022)'s main analysis is robust to reproduction, and that König et al. (2022)'s results do not travel to the UK's typical majoritarian system. Our additional contribution also highlights the potential for future research to further address the endogeneity of legislative institutions to coalition governance, and possible institutional confounders to coalition policing.

     

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    Edition: Last updated: November 23, 2023
    Series: I4R discussion paper series / Institute for Replication ; no. 104
    Subjects: replication; reproduction; coalition government; Western Europe; Britain; Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition; circular regression
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  9. Reproduction of "Teaching Norms: Direct Evidence of Parental Transmission"
    Published: March 2024
    Publisher:  Institute for Replication, Essen, Germany

    This paper is a replication study of Brouwer, T., Galeotti, F., & Villeval, M. C. (2023), using the original data. The study explores how social norms are transmitted from one generation to another, specifically from parents to children. The authors... more

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    This paper is a replication study of Brouwer, T., Galeotti, F., & Villeval, M. C. (2023), using the original data. The study explores how social norms are transmitted from one generation to another, specifically from parents to children. The authors conducted a field experiment involving 601 parents of children aged 3 to 12 in Lyon, France, to examine whether parents engage more in norm enforcement in the presence of their child, and whether the nature of punishment changes in the presence of the child. The study found that parents do engage more in norm enforcement in the presence of their child, and tend to use more indirect punishment when their child is present. This study highlights the role that parents play in transmitting social norms to their children. The replication analysis was successful, with the results of the original study being robust to changes in the model specification.

     

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    Contributor: Brouwer, Thijs (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks); Galeotti, Fabio (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks); Villeval, Marie-Claire (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks)
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    hdl: 10419/286490
    Edition: This version: March 11, 2024
    Series: I4R discussion paper series / Institute for Replication ; no. 106
    Subjects: replication; experiment; information provision; inequality; field experiment
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  10. A computational reproduction of "Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness" by Masatlioglu, Orhun and Raymond (2023)
    Published: October 2024
    Publisher:  Institute for Replication, Essen, Germany

    Masatlioglu et al. (2023) show a strong intrinsic preference for positively skewed information over negatively skewed information through three laboratory and two field experiments. Using the provided replication package, we successfully... more

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    Masatlioglu et al. (2023) show a strong intrinsic preference for positively skewed information over negatively skewed information through three laboratory and two field experiments. Using the provided replication package, we successfully computationally reproduce these results. Additionally, we test the robustness of the findings by employing alternative statistical tests, which confirmed the original conclusions. We also make minor comments about the paper that may be useful to researchers building on Masatlioglu et al. (2023)'s work.

     

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    Contributor: Masatlioglu, Yusufcan (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks); Orhun, Yeşim (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks); Raymond, Collin (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks)
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    hdl: 10419/303902
    Series: I4R discussion paper series / Institute for Replication ; no. 164
    Subjects: replication; information preferences; skewness; information avoidance
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 8 Seiten)