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ECIN Replication Package for "Researchers' Degrees of Flexibility: Revisiting COVID-19 Policy Evaluations"

Name: ECIN Replication Package for "Researchers' Degrees of Flexibility: Revisiting COVID-19 Policy Evaluations"
Published: 2024-07-05
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Joakim Weill, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Matthieu Stigler, ETH Zurich; Olivier Deschenes, UC Santa Barbara; Michael Springborn, UC Davis

Version: View help for Version V1

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Project Description

Summary: Empirical research involves multiple, seemingly-minor choices that can substantially impact a study's findings. While acknowledged, the importance of these ``degrees of flexibility'' on published estimates is not well understood. We examine the considerable literature focused on the impacts of early COVID-19 policies on social distancing to assess the role of researchers' degrees of flexibility on the estimated effects of mobility-reducing policies. We find that estimates reported in previous studies are not robust to minor changes in typically-unexplored dimensions of the degree of flexibility space, and usual robustness tests systematically fail to detect these issues.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      B16 History of Economic Thought through 1925: Quantitative and Mathematical
      B40 Economic Methodology: General
      C10 Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
      C18 Methodological Issues: General

Manuscript Number: ECIN-May-2023-0200

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