Michael Clemens’ recent working paper “The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal” echoes concerns expressed by some replicatees and economists more generally Ozler, 2014, for example, about the potentially damaging effects of a claim of failed replication on reputations (or similar concerns in social psychology). Some of these concerns have been expressed in relation to 3ie’s program of funding for replications of prominent works in development economics (Jensen and Oster, 2013; Dercon et al.