Best practices in replication: A case study of common information in coordination games

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Roy Chen, National University of Singapore; Yan Chen, University of Michigan; Yohanes E. Riyanto, Nanyang Technological University

Version: View help for Version V1

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
1 - Programs and Files for Data Collection			04/22/2020 02:22:AM
2 - Raw Data			04/22/2020 02:21:AM
3 - Processed Data			04/22/2020 02:29:AM
4 - Data Analysis			04/22/2020 02:21:AM
README_Chen_Chen_Riyanto.docx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document	17.5 KB	04/21/2020 10:21:PM

Project Citation:

Chen, Roy, Chen, Yan, and Riyanto, Yohanes E. Best practices in replication: A case study of common information in coordination games. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-04-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119065V1

Project Description

Summary:

This project contains the materials used and collected for the paper "Best practices in replication: A case study of common information in coordination games," accepted for publication in Experimental Economics.

The paper examines a case of non-replication in experimental economics. An original study, Chen and Chen (2011), was not replicated successfully by Camerer et al. (2016). We find that a seemingly minor protocol deviation, not reading the instructions aloud to the subjects, is likely responsible for this non-replication. We test the importance of common information in another replication run by the third author.

Materials included are:

1) Programs and files used for data collection (zTree), and all instructions used

2) Raw data generated by zTree

3) Processed data and programs used to process the data (Stata)

4) Analysis files (Stata and Matlab)

5) README file containing descriptions of the other files

Funding Sources: Ministry of Education (Singapore) Tier 1 grant (M4011490); National Univesity of Singapore (Economics Department grant)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: replication; experimental economics; reproducibility

Geographic Coverage: United States, Michigan, Singapore

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V1 [2020-04-23]

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