Selected Publications (by topic)

See CV for a complete list of publications and here for COVID-19 papers.

RESEARCH TRANSPARENCY

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Jan. 2016, Vol. 8, Issue 1: p. 1-32.

(with M. Lé, M. Sangnier and Y. Zylberberg)

Reproduction/replication: Adam Gorajek and Benjamin Malin wrote a comment which is available here and co-wrote a related paper for central banks. Paul J. Ferraro and Pallavi Shukla replicated our main result using a different set of journals in this article.

Unpacking p-Hacking and Publication Bias

American Economic Review, Nov. 2023, Vol. 113, Issue 11: p. 2974-3002.

(with S. Carrell, D. Figlio and L. Lusher)

Reproduction: Most of our empirical results computationally reproduced by the AER's data editor.

Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics

American Economic Review, Nov. 2020, Vol. 110, Issue 11: p. 3634-3660.

(with N. Cook and A. Heyes)

Publicly Available Postprint here

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Reproduction/replication: Results reproduced by the AER's data editor. A comment by Sebastian Kranz and Peter Puetz is published at the AER. Our answer is here. Our IV results were successfully replicated by Paul J. Ferraro and Pallavi Shukla using data from this article. Adam Gorajek and Benjamin Malin also wrote a comment on "Star Wars" and "Methods: Matter" which is available here. Last, Uri Simonsohn was a reviewer and wrote a post on Datacolada. Our full answer is at the end of the post.

Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?: Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement

Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics

(with N. Cook, J. Hartley and A. Heyes)

P-Hacking, Data Type and Availability of Replication Material

Economic Journal, April 2024, Vol. 134, Issue 659, p. 985-1018.

(with N. Cook and C. Neisser)

Reproduction: The data and codes for this paper are available on the Journal repository. They were checked for their ability to reproduce the results presented in the paper.

Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings

Economic Journal, July 2020, Vol. 130, Issue 629: p. 1226-1247.

(with C. Blanco-Perez)

Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/mjbj2/ (includes data and codes)

Reproduction: The data and codes for this paper are available on the Journal repository. They were checked for their ability to reproduce the results presented in the paper.

Replication Games: How to Make Reproducibility Research More Systematic

Nature, Oct. 2023, Vol. 621, p. 684-686.

(with A. Dreber, F. Hoces de la Guardia and E. Miguel)

Reproductions and Replications at Scale

Nature Human Behaviour, Jan. 2024, Vol. 8, Issue 1: p. 2-3.

(with A. Dreber, F. Hoces de la Guardia and E. Miguel)

Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science

Research & Politics, Jan. 2024, Vol. 11, Issue 1.

(with K. Esterling, J. Ankel-Peters, N. S. Bueno, S. Desposato, A. Dreber, F. Genovese, D. P. Green, M. Hepplewhite, F. Hoces de la Guardia, M. Johannesson, A. Kotsadam, E. Miguel, Y. R Velez, L. Young)

HATRED, SHOOTINGS & TERRORISM

On the Economic Consequences of Mass Shootings

Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics

(with H. Yousaf)

Mention: IZA Newsroom, MarketWatch

The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Oct. 2018, Vol. 10, Issue 4: p. 246-282.

Circulated under the name "Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks"

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Reproduction/replication: Results reproduced by AEJ's data editor. Fich et al. replicate the main results at the MSA level and extend the analysis to other economic outcomes.

Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Dec. 2019, Vol. 168: p. 119-131.

(with T. Wright)

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Replication: Main result replicated by concurrent work by Justice Tei Mensah and Kweku Opoku-Agyemang. Paper available here.