#GDRI_rep Update 9: We have been waiting a couple of months to make two announcements. A few journals were in the process of retracting GDRI article. The editors informed the authors and then lawyers got involved. Who knows how long it will take.

🚨 Our comment on Begum, Grossman & Islam (2018) in @readdemography.bsky.social is now available as an @i4replication.bsky.social working paper (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, Bensch & Brodeur). Read it here 👉 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025! rc08.ipsa.org/post/2025/09... 1/4

We are hiring! Join a strong team to have a real impact on how science is done😊 #econsky

How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... Still a challenge!

Paper is here. Demonstrates with a very large sample the same phenomenon we saw previously in a somewhat smaller sample in Ethiopia: list experiments can produce fleeing behavior that leads to negative prevalence rates papers.ssrn.com/sol3... www.tandfonline.com/...

The answer to this excellent question from @kotsadam + Løvgren: yes! List experiments do not, in general, seem to be an effective tool for measuring IPV; we should not use them unless there is a convincing reason to think otherwise

Great day at the Frisch Centre, hosted by @kotsadam.bsky.social , presenting ongoing work on the integration paradox

#GDRI_rep Update 8a: Major updates coming up over the next few weeks. 1st update: We reproduced "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" some time ago. The paper was then retracted by the editors of the Euro Econ Rev. Additional studies are connected (see diagram) 🧵

Development aid can help suppress insurgencies, but it may be counterproductive in areas where insurgents came from outside of local communities, say researchers at @theworldbank.bsky.social, @mit.edu, and @upf.edu. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/dev...

Fascinating new paper shows that papers reporting statistical significance get at least 60% more media attention #econtwitter #econsky: from Brodeur Cook @nikolaimcook @taylor_wright, a short 🧵

🚨 New research alert! 🚨 Check out this recent paper by Johannes Bergh, Dag Arne Christensen and @finseraas.bsky.social on the impact of early voting on partners mobilisation. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.

"It's the economy, stupid" Voters vote based on the economy. But there are many economic performance indicators. Which matter the most? This new paper shows voters react to growth, unemployment, inflation, & stock markets. But the inflation plays the biggest role. www.ifau.se/globalassets...

10 Conversations that Implementers and Evaluators Need to Have buff.ly/9lWzMqZ #EGAPMethodsGuide

Do family-friendly hours make it easier for women politicians to participate in meetings? 🕚 In a new working paper, I find they don’t. 🧵1/10

Update #2, RETRACTED: 15 months after we (w @ollefolke.bsky.social and @johannarickne.bsky.social ) submitted the initial comment to the Journal, we've noticed the paper was ultimately retracted. Retraction note here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Important paper from @anderskjelsrud.bsky.social and Sahar!

Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time. The key difference? Whether people mobilized.

🧵 When authoritarian leaders attack judges as "enemies," history shows us exactly where this leads. Trump's assault on "USA HATING JUDGES" isn't just inflammatory rhetoric—it's following a script written by strongmen worldwide. But other countries show us how to fight back.

After one year of waiting, we finally got a response from the Journal of Population Economics about our replication of "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden", confirming the major coding error that invalidates the main results, but not retracting the paper. 1/2

A re-analysis of Ciacci's (2024) "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden" Journal of Population Economics reveals major issues. A year ago, reproducers Adema, Folke, and Rickne found coding errors driving the paper's key results. Let's unpack this in a 🧵

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

9/ Based on our initial and extended replications, we wonder: how can the editor still trust the results of this paper? If this case does not meet the criteria for retraction, what does?

10/ Please help share our extended replication to correct the record on this misleading policy evaluation! Full replication text here: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

🚨 New #EconHistory research alert! Our paper “Strikes & Machines: Investment decisions in inter‑war Norway” conditionally accepted in Journal of Economic History ask "What did strike threats really do to technology?" 👇 1/6

The Islam - GDRI saga is gaining some traction. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/10/r...

I was on the Good on Paper podcast at the Atlantic discussing a paper joint with Cody Tuttle and Jorg Spenkuch:

Previously I did a lit 🧵 the other site around evidence of effects of weather shocks on IPV: re-upping that here, and with some exciting new additions! #econsky

Papers published in Psych Science following January 1st, 2024 are candidates for I4R to computationally reproduce, stress-test and replicate. This is an official collaboration with @psychscience.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We are looking for reproducers and replicators!

Great to see our comment now available online in the European Economic Review! (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, Gunther Bensch & Abel Brodeur @i4replication.bsky.social) 🙌

A study by Nicolai T. Borgen, Lars J. Kirkebøen, @kotsadam.bsky.social, and @oraaum.bsky.social found that funding 600 extra teachers cut the student-teacher ratio by 10%, boosted student well-being and the school environment, but did not improve academics. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

#GDRI_rep Update 7: Retraction! Our comment of "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes: Evidence from a developing country" has led to the paper being retracted. Our comment is accepted as is. Short 🧵

I am very happy that the editors took our report seriously. Hope more retractions will follow.

#GDRI_rep Update 6: Some of the authors have responded to our report on "Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities" @ The Review of Economics and Statistics. Authors received our report Feb 6. A short 🧵

In Ethiopia, random offers of employment to women have no effect on physical intimate partner violence, either positive or negative - but a 26% reduction in emotional IPV @kotsada @kotsadam.bsky.social jhr.uwpress.org/cont...

Støres regjering er balansert på kjønn. Men hvor er distriktene og arbeiderklassen? @nedregardoda.bsky.social, Henning og jeg skriver i DN om vårt paper som er under publisering Journal of Politics www.jon.fiva.no/docs/FivaNed... www.dn.no/innlegg/poli...

We've just opened registration to 6 replication games: i4replication.org/games.html Montreal (May 28-all) San Francisco (June 19-econ) Madrid (June 25-all) Bordeaux (August 24-econ) Paris (October 3-all) Lyon (October 9-all) 🧵 with more details.

Our Editorial Board has chosen our Paper of the Year for 2024. This paper presents important results regarding the trustworthiness of economic research. Congratulations to Anna, Magnus and Yifan! doi.org/10.1111/ecin...

This comment reanalyzes data from Oprea (2014) and draws different conclusions. What should AER do? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 1️⃣ Retract original 2️⃣ Publish whole comment (37 pp) 3️⃣ Publish shorter comment 4️⃣ Do nothing 📊 Show results

Excellent thread, almost makes me miss teaching. The @coreecon.bsky.social curriculum is amazing!

"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof

This gem is hidden in the response to the response. ”…within a few hours and under extreme time pressure 11,843 households were visited and 22,686 respondents interviewed (two spouses in each household).” Indeed hard to believe 🫠

Another day, another I4R update on the Islam - GDRI saga. And what a doozy it is. Not only a new report (and responses) but we learn that an R&R at JPubEcon by Islam et al was withdrawn and an R&R by Islam et al at JPE - Micro has now been rejected. No word from Monash yet.

#GDRI_rep Update 5: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Partisan Effects of Information Campaigns in Competitive Authoritarian Elections: Evidence from Bangladesh" by Ahmed, Hodler and Islam published at the Economic Journal. See below for links to report and authors' responses.

In a new @i4replication.bsky.social report we replicate Islam (2019). Main issue: the randomized controlled trial was not randomized. And many other things on top of that. See full report for details. (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, Bensch & Brodeur)

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Effects of speed-schools in Niger" By @annekie.bsky.social, @kotsadam.bsky.social, & Jing Liu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.

Quite a thread. Vivid demonstration that @i4replication.bsky.social and other mechanisms above individual journals are vital for scientific hygiene

It’s amazing how authors seem to immediately jump ship on papers they coauthored when flagged…