New paper highlights replication studies in economics

Four researchers associated with the former project EDaWaX have recently published a new research article entitled “Replication studies in economics – How many and which papers are chosen for replication, and why?” The article, written by Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff and Gert G. Wagner, sheds light on replication practice in empirical economics. The article can be found here (published in Research Policy under a Creative Commons license). Here, they provide a brief overview of the paper:

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