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Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an … ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice …, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives replication. Here we investigate how often replication studies are …
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We elicit adolescent girl's attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using purposefully collected data from rural Bangladesh. Alongside direct survey questions, we conduct list experiments to elicit true preferences for intimate partner violence and marriage before age...
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The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This...
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This paper constructs a two-period overlapping generations model of human capital investment decisions where a microloan program designed to finance entrepreneurial activities is active. It is shown that, in the presence of human capital externalities (social returns to education) there exists a...
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Using randomized control trials (RCTs) applied over time in different countries, we study how the economic environment … provided information about inflation and monetary policy. We also study the effects of RCTs in countries where inflation has …
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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 …
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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 …. Nevertheless, most respondents are not willing to spend their time to conduct replication studies. This situation can be …
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a replication opportunity for those papers, with two innovations: (i) a design which allows stated and revealed …
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replication study in Tehran, Iran, are somewhat mixed. While quantitative items considering hypothetical versions of the …
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this...
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