[*AoI = “Articles of Interest” is a feature of TRN where we report abstracts of recent research related to replication and research integrity.]
ABSTRACT (taken from*** the article***)
“A scientific discovery in empirical research, e.g., establishing a causal relationship between two variables, is typically based on rejecting a statistical null hypothesis of no relationship.
[This blog originally appeared at the blogsite Development Impact] About a year ago, I blogged on a paper that had tried to replicate results on 61 papers in economics and found that in 51% of the cases, they couldn’t get the same result. In the meantime, someone brought to my attention a paper that takes a wider sample and also makes us think about what “replication” is, so I thought it would be worth looking at those results.