This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication … populations in one's own work or in a Comment. Several controversies in empirical economics illustrate how and how not to behave …

theoretical papers, these methods did not attract much attention in the economics literature until recently. Starting in the late … first introduced in the evaluation literature by Thistlewaite and Campbell (1960). With the exception of a few unpublished … 1990s, there has been a large number of studies in economics applying and extending RD methods. In this paper we review …