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Sep 9, 2020
Christensen, Garret; Miguel, Edward, 2020, "Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/O5QBHM, Harvard Dataverse, V1
There is growing interest in enhancing research transparency and reproducibility in economics and other scientific fields. We survey existing work on these topics within economics, and discuss the evidence suggesting that publication bias, inability to replicate, and specification searching remain widespread in the discipline. We next discuss recen... |
Bouguen, Adrien; Huang, Yue; Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward, 2020, "Using RCTs to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AUO559, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:pAY5pihT5Ie+McXUSswVOA== [fileUNF]
We assess evidence from randomized control trials (RCTs) on long-run economic productivity and living standards in poor countries. We first document that several studies estimate large positive long-run impacts, but that relatively few existing RCTs have been evaluated over the long-run. We next present evidence from a systematic survey of existing... |
Baysan, Ceren; Burke, Marshall; González, Felipe; Hsiang, Solomon; Miguel, Edward, 2020, "Non-economic factors in violence: Evidence from organized crime, suicides and climate in Mexico", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HFH5BN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:kau0sbXjWoNMumz8cQx8Nw== [fileUNF]
Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In contrast, it is generally assumed that non-economic factors, such as an individual’s emotional state, play a role in many types of interpersonal violence, such as crimes of passion. We ask whether non-economic factors can also explain t... |
Michal Bauer; Christopher Blattman; Julie Chytilová; Joseph Henrich; Edward Miguel; Tamar Mitts, 2020, "Can War Foster Cooperation?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0WAEAM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:4MCI+8HbTQLCpJy97bGUIA== [fileUNF]
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals a... |
Garret Christensen; Allan Dafoe; Edward Miguel; Don A. Moore; Andrew K. Rose, 2020, "A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal policies as a natural experiment", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ORTJT5, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:YJEEj53D9rerIwYu2+61BQ== [fileUNF]
This study estimates the effect of data sharing on the citations of academic articles, using journal policies as a natural experiment. We begin by examining 17 high-impact journals that have adopted the requirement that data from published articles be publicly posted. We match these 17 journals to 13 journals without policy changes and find that em... |
Sep 3, 2020
Jade Benjamin-Chung; Jaynal Abedin; David Berger; Ashley Clark; Veronica Jimenez; Eugene Konagaya; Diana Tran; Benjamin F. Arnold; Alan E. Hubbard; Stephen P. Luby; Edward Miguel; John M. Colford Jr, 2020, "Spillover effects on health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VJMBTJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Background: Many interventions delivered to improve health may benefit not only direct recipients but also people in close physical or social proximity. Our objective was to review all published literature about the spillover effects of interventions on health outcomes in low-middle income countries and to identify methods used in estimating these... |
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge; Kjetil Bjorvatn; Simon Galle; Edward Miguel; Daniel Posner; Bertil Tungodden; Kelly Zhang, 2020, "Ethnically biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/I0AER9, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Olwz8RhGyE03K2kMp8lQTQ== [fileUNF]
Ethnicity has been shown to shape political, social, and economic behavior in Africa, but the underlying mechanisms remain contested. We utilize lab experiments to isolate one mechanism—an individual’s bias in favor of coethnics and against non-coethnics—that has been central in both theory and in the conventional wisdom about the impact of ethnici... |
Swanson, Nicholas; Christensen, Garret; Littman, Rebecca; Birke, David; Miguel, Edward; Levy Paluck, Elizabeth; Wang, Zenan, 2020, "Research Transparency Is on the Rise in Economics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ITUGRV, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This study provides a first assessment of awareness of, attitudes toward, perceived norms regarding, and adoption of open science practices within a broadly representative sample of active economics researchers. We observe a steep increase in adoption over the last decade, with an accelerating trend: as of 2017, 93 percent of economists had used at... |
Bauer, Michal; Chytilova, Julie; Miguel, Edward, 2020, "Using survey questions to measure preferences: Lessons from an experimental validation in Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/M1ITQ1, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:OeWfpn+fKKNpfK7p5ufKyA== [fileUNF]
Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university students (Becker et al. 2016) and were implemented among representative samples across the globe (Falk et al.... |
Lee, Kenneth; Miguel, Edward; Wolfram, Catherine, 2020, "Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BXFEU3, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:mYouqnagBsM3xLc3mqd9ew== [fileUNF]
We present results from an experiment that randomized the expansion of electric grid infrastructure in rural Kenya. Electricity distribution is a canonical example of a natural monopoly. Experimental variation in the number of connections, combined with administrative cost data, reveals considerable scale economies, as hypothesized. Randomized pric... |
