Amazon Mechanical Turk is a very widely-used tool in business and economics research, but how trustworthy are results from well-published studies that use it? Analyzing the universe of hypotheses tested on the platform and published in leading journals between 2010 and 2020 we find evidence of...

There is extensive evidence of hiring decisions being biased with respect to applicant race and gender. We look at the other side of the hiring transaction, presenting what we believe to be first systematic investigation of bias in labor supply. In a choice experiment we examine decisions of job...

There is extensive evidence of hiring decisions being biased with respect to applicant race and gender. We look at the other side of the hiring transaction, presenting what we believe to be first systematic investigation of bias in labor supply. In a choice experiment we examine decisions of job...

Pre-registration is regarded as an important contributor to research credibility. We investigate this by analyzing the pattern of test statistics from the universe of randomized controlled trials (RCT) studies published in 15 leading economics journals. We draw two conclusions: (a)...

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...