The case for making economics research easier to replicate on.wsj.com/1LoJcdu https://t.co/41LxdjAICE—
Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) October 22, 2015
It is rather obvious that scholars have almost no incentives for replication or verification of other’s work. Even the guys who busted La Cour will get little for their efforts aside from a few pats on the back. But what is less noted is that editors have little incentive to issue corrections, publish replications, and commentaries:
- Editing a journal is a huge workload. Imagine an additional steady stream of replication notes that need to be refereed.
- Replication notes will never get cited like the original, so they drag down your journal’s impact factor.
- Replication studies, except in cases of fraud (e.g., the La Cour case), will rarely change the minds of people after they read the original. For example, the Bender, Moe and Schotts APSR replication essentially pointed out that a key point of garbage can theory is wrong, yet the garbage can model still gets piles of cites.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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