In the New England Journal of Medicine, Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing. Their main … concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for … Drazen are right when they note that scientific data sharing deserves more recognition. However, they indicate that the most …

The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of … replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over … methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This paper proposes an unambiguous definition of replication, one that …

So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … ; panel data ; Germany … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …

enterprise. Replication studies are necessary to detect erroneous research. Thus, the replicability of research is considered a … alike. In this case study we analyze perceptions and practices regarding replication studies in the social and behavioral … sciences. Our analyses are based on a survey of almost 300 researchers that use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

We analyze the novel transactional card expenditure data for Germany and Austria provided by Fable Data. We describe … lower-frequency information from external data sources. We find very similar expenditure patterns in Germany and Austria. We … key features of the data in terms of the coverage of expenditure items, payment channels, and the distribution of …

new data and lower for re-analyses that change the sample or the definition of the dependent variable. Fourth, 52% of re … intermediate or even raw data combined with the necessary cleaning codes. …