Data and Code for: Research Transparency Is on the Rise in Economics

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley; Nicholas Swanson, UC Berkeley; Garret Christensen, US Census Bureau; David Birke, UC Berkeley; Zenan Wang, UC Berkeley; Betsy Levy Paluck, Princeton; Rebecca Littman, MIT

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Project Description

Summary: Has there been meaningful movement toward open science practices within economics in recent years? Discussions about changes in practices such as posting data and pre-registering analyses have been marked by controversy---including controversy over the extent to which change has taken place. This paper, based on the State of Social Science (3S) Survey, provides the first comprehensive assessment of awareness of, attitudes towards, perceived norms regarding, and adoption of open science practices within a broadly representative sample of scholars from economics . We observe a steep increase in adoption: as of 2017, over 90\% of scholars had used at least one such practice, rising from one quarter a decade earlier. This, however, masks substantial heterogeneity in the extent and pace of adoption by field and methodology. We also find that economists are generally aware of open science practices, and they are favorably inclined toward them, while underestimating the extent of support among their peers. Patterns are consistent with most scholars underestimating the trend toward open science in their discipline

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: [Open Science; Reproducibility; , Open Science; Reproducibility; Transparency; ]

JEL Classification:
      A10 General Economics: General
      B40 Economic Methodology: General
      C90 Design of Experiments: General

Geographic Coverage: United States, Europe

Data Type(s): survey data

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