Another replication paper in the field of development economics: Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Four Field Experiments. A Replication Study of Bold et al. (American Economic Review, 2022), by Ryan McWay, Karim Nchare, and Pu Sun (JCRE, Vol. 3, 2024-2)

I’m happy to announce that my research paper with Aubrey Stewart, titled 'The Impact of Weather Shocks on Violent and Property Crimes in Jamaica,' is now published in The World Bank Economic Review. #weather #crime #climatechange #Jamaica FIU Green School FIU News World Bank

Half a billion people, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia, still rely on biomass for their basic needs, underscoring the urgent necessity for innovative energy solutions. Jörg Ankel-Peters #globaldev

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4-Robustness checks: Replicators conducted 5,511 re-analyses. We define robustness reproducibility as having the same sign and remaining significant at the 5% level. We find a robustness reproducibility of about 70%.

New meta-replication by I4R. Five RWI co-authors (~1.5%), and even more importantly, our editorial team managed to get 350+ authors on the title page. Congratulations to Abel Brodeur & Derek Mikola for pulling off this impressive collaborative effort. 👏

Our first meta paper is out!! This paper combines our first 110 completed reproductions/replications. This is joint work with 350+ amazing coauthors.
We summarize our findings below.
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Some initial thoughts on this amazing work:
1) It's not good news. Of the work that's most likely to be passable, of those that the authors provided sufficient information, in just the narrow area of computational reproducibility, there's usually at least one major problem.

We have a new DP by Chen et al. entitled 'The Many Misspellings of Albuquerque: A Comment on 'Sorting or Steering: The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Neighborhood Choice'', econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdp…

Authors' response: econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdp…

🌟This week, we are exploring the pressing global issue of sustainable energy access.

5⃣0⃣0⃣ million people rely on biomass for their basic needs, underscoring the urgent necessity for innovative energy solutions.🔋 Jörg Ankel-Peters RWI Leibniz Institute

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💡🎧 New Episode Alert! Uncover the impact of electrification on economic growth.

🎙️We explore the vast challenge of energy poverty affecting billions and discuss sustainable energy solutions from Africa to Asia.

Jörg Ankel-Peters #globaldev

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How common are questionable research practices? In our recent preprint, we pool answers from 18 studies. osf.io/dqap7 Many people admit having used these practices, but not all the time. Lack of transparency makes it impossible to know exactly how much bias there is.

Banning the purchase of sex 🚨DOES NOT🚨increase cases of reported rape.

A re-analysis of Ciacci (2024) shows that the paper's headline result comes from an erroneous use of Stata's regression command.

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New working paper!

Many blame citizens’ short time horizons for the failure of governments to tackle long-term problems

But evidence is mixed, hindered by limited research designs

I take a new approach to understand how myopia affects policy attitudes

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Yep I’m still annoyed by this

Great PhD opportunity at RWI Leibniz Institute in development economics and meta-science!

📢Call for Papers: Working on causal inference problems with spatial data? Join us for our workshop, 26–27 September 2024.
👉Keynotes: Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, Daniel Sturm, Hans Koster (@VUamsterdam) and Yanos Zylberberg (@BristolUniEcon)
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If you qualify, apply for this PhD position. RWI Leibniz Institute has great research groups. I had the privilege of visiting them a couple of times.

Come work with us! We have an open PhD position RWI Leibniz Institute to do research on population & health, climate and development economics - but with a strong meta-scientific angle. rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/user…