By Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, and Andrew Zeitlin This post is also posted on the Development Impact blog. The holidays are upon us. You might like to show off a bit by preparing something special for the ones you love. Why not make a pre-analysis plan this holiday season? You’re…
Registered Reports to the Rescue?
After writing an article for The Upshot, Brendan Nyhan (Assistant Professor at Dartmouth) was interviewed by The Washington Post. The original Upshot article advocates for a new publishing structure called Registered Reports (RRs): A research publishing format in which protocols and analysis plans are peer reviewed and registered prior to data collection, then published regardless of the outcome. In the following interview…
Political Scientists Launch New Replication Initiative
Following a groundswell of interest for replications in the political sciences, first noticed from survey results posted on the Monkey Cage Blog, Political Scientists Seth Werfel (Stanford University) and Nicole Janz (Cambridge University), and research consultant Stephanie Wykstra launched the Political Science Replication Initiative, a new repository for uploading study replications. Increasingly, methodological political scientists have recognized…
Trying out the new Trial Registries
Reblogged from World Bank’s David McKenzie: Both the American Economic Association and 3ie have launched Impact Evaluation Trial Registries […] I recently tried out both registries by registering a couple of studies I have underway, so thought I’d share some feedback on the process for those of you wondering whether/how to register. Read…
New Registry for Impact Evaluations in International Development
The 3ie Registry for International Development Impact Evaluations (RIDIE) is a registry of impact evaluations related to development in low and middle income countries. The purpose of the registry is to enhance the transparency and quality of evaluation research as well as to provide a repository of impact evaluation studies for researchers, funders, and…