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The Institute for Replication (I4R) works to improve the credibility of science by promoting and conducting reproductions and replications.

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All studies were computationally reproduced by the Economic Inquiry's data editor.

Kudos to Economic Inquiry for supporting open, cumulative, and reproducible science!
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On climate and long-run growth, Cook, Cordeau, Li, and Wright reproduce and re-assess Waldinger's "The economic effects of long-term climate change".
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On gender and political economy, Bagues, Campa, and Etingin-Frati replicates Gagliarducci & Paserman (2022).
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On crime and prosecution, Kaplan, Naddeo, and Scott provide a reassessment of Hogan (2022).
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On forecasting and macro uncertainty, Benyo, Ellwanger, and Snudden revisit and replicate Baumeister and Kilian's 2012 work.
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On global inequality, Angenendt, Mariuzzo, and Zhang reassess a study by Sampson on the impact of international technology gaps on income inequality, trade, and wages.
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On cooperation, reciprocity and the commons, Drouvelis & Qiu revisits experimental evidence and explores how income inequality shapes cooperative behavior.
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On investor sentiment and stock returns, Leong, Li, Li, Peng, and Xu replicates and extends the classic Baker & Wurgler (2006) analysis.
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On public health policy and opioid-related ER admissions, Sergey Alexeev re-examines Doleac & Mukherjee (2022).
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On trade and identity, Gonzalez & Özak reproduces and extends earlier work by Dickens.
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On culture and history, Bertoli, Clerc, Loper, and Roca Fernández reproduces Giuliano & Nunn (2021) "Understanding cultural persistence and change".
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
On innovation & immigration, Taylor J. Wright reassesses “How much does immigration boost innovation?”, a widely cited result linking immigration to innovative activity.
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
While part I (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14657295...) highlights new research that advances our understanding & practice of replication, part II reproduces and re-assesses influential articles.
Economic Inquiry: Vol 63, No 2
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
We believe reproducibility is the cornerstone of trustworthy science, which is why we will be systematically reaching to authors, building replication packages, and testing robustness directly.
See more at:
i4replication.org/the-reproduc...
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
In our latest post, we explore what happens when data and code go missing:

Out of 553 public health studies, only 19.3% made their data public

In economics, the situation is better but far from perfect: 46.7% of studies have a full replication package...
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM