Big kudos to this team for doing the work of uncovering what looks like large-scale research malpractice. Some highlights in this thread.

As a coauthor on the AEJ:AE report, it’s a lot. Oh my god, It’s a lot. In that paper, main outcomes are inconsistently handled both in the code and in the field, the paper’s data is connected to a bunch of other experiments, and we find irregularities in the raw survey files.

#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI (x.com/gdri_research), or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵

#GDRI_rep Update 2: I4R sent a report to the original authors for the PLOS One article "“Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country". All authors have now emailed PLOS One to withdraw their names. osf.io/7tzek/

I also develop new methods for testing running variable (RV) manipulation in RDD (similar to Hartman 2021). Using the Stommes et al. (2023) data, I find >44% of RV density discontinuities at treatment cutoffs can't be bounded beneath 50% upward jumps. 🧵: x.com/FitzgeraldJack…

I'll be waking up early (7 AM CET) on Tuesday, March 12 to present my job market paper at 5 PM Sydney time! If you're awake too, stop by to hear me talk about equivalence testing, replication-based methods research, and the robustness of null results in economics!

Here's another recent critique of close elections RDDs. It's unclear whether there is actually good evidence against potentially fatal precise manipulation around the cutoff in these designs. The McCrary (2008) DCdensity and Cattaneo, Jansson, & Ma (2018; 2020) rddensity

Thank you Carlisle Rainey for boosting my job market paper! I’m a fan of your prior work on this topic. If you want to learn more, check out the paper and my BIBAP seminar on it tomorrow, 3/12 7 AM CET/5 PM Sydney time. unsw.edu.au/business/behav…

#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.

#GDRI_rep Update 5: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Partisan Effects of Information Campaigns in Competitive Authoritarian Elections: Evidence from Bangladesh" by Ahmed, Hodler and Islam published at The Economic Journal. See below for links to report and responses.

#GDRI_rep Update 7: Retraction! Our comment of "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes: Evidence from a developing country" has led to the paper being retracted. Our comment is accepted as is. Short 🧵

Dutch academics, please share - replication games are coming to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on July 19! If you live in the Netherlands, or want a good reason to visit, then come network, hone your skills, and potentially coauthor a paper. Registration: surveymonkey.ca/r/Replication_…

Registration closes on July 4! Come join us in-person or virtually in Amsterdam!