There are two separate issues with errors in data. There is plain mistakes made because people do have sufficient resources to check and double check and so forth. The second and real issue is people making things up and colluding with peer reviewers
Jessie Romero writes on this topic which has been a nuisance for sometime. There is too much pressure to do research to get promoted in econ academics. This is leading to all kinds of shortcuts and issues for the profession. And then at the end what do we really get? More and more abstraction and away from reality kind of research. Economic research has proliferated big time and if much was indeed so useful then world should have been a much better place.
Starts with the famous Rogoff and Reinhart error:
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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