Pre Analysis Plans

Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg

Stockholm School of Economics

Can we trust scientific results?

Edward Miguel

UC Berkeley

Introduction to Pre-Registration

Links to registries:

AER registry: https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/

Center for Open Science: https://osf.io/prereg/

as predicted: https://aspredicted.org/

Some useful papers:

Olken, Benjamin A. "Promises and Perils of Pre-Analysis Plans." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no. 3 (2015): 61-80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43550121.

Coffman, Lucas C., and Muriel Niederle. "Pre-Analysis Plans Have Limited Upside, Especially Where Replications Are Feasible." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no. 3 (2015): 81-97. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43550122.

Banerjee, A., Duflo, E., Finkelstein, A., Katz, L. F., Olken, B. A., & Sautmann, A. "In praise of moderation: Suggestions for the scope and use of pre-analysis plans for rcts in economics." NBER working paper, No. w26993 https://www.nber.org/papers/w26993

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