3ie Replication Programme

Capture In support of recent efforts by social scientists to address the ‘ reproducibility crisis’, the Journal of Development Effectiveness (JDEff) recently devoted a special issue on replication research studies in its last issue of 2019. Most journals continue to favor new research rather than replication work and to publish research whose data and codes have not been tested.

[This post is cross-published on FHI 360’s*** R&E Search for Evidence blog***] There are many debates about the definitions and distinctions for replication research, particularly for internal replication research, which is conducted using the original dataset from an article or study. The debaters are concerned about what kinds of replication exercises are appropriate and about how (and whether) to make determinations of “success” and “failure” for a replication.