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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Assessing the Rate of Replication in Economics

  • James Berry
  • Lucas C. Coffman
  • Douglas Hanley
  • Rania Gihleb
  • Alistair J. Wilson
American Economic Review
vol. 107, no. 5, May 2017
(pp. 27–31)
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Abstract

We assess the rate of replication for empirical papers in the 2010 American Economic Review. Across 70 empirical papers, we find that 29 percent have 1 or more citation that partially replicates the original result. While only a minority of papers has a published replication, a majority (60 percent) have either a replication, robustness test, or an extension. Surveying authors within the literature, we find substantial uncertainty over the number of extant replications.

Citation

Berry, James, Lucas C. Coffman, Douglas Hanley, Rania Gihleb, and Alistair J. Wilson. 2017. "Assessing the Rate of Replication in Economics." American Economic Review, 107 (5): 27–31. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171119

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JEL Classification

  • A14 Sociology of Economics