This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in ...

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The National Elections Database provides detailed national election results for parliamentary and presidential elections worldwide from 1789 to 2023. The version 1.0 of this dataset was first built to...

Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas.

We study how author connections influence paper outcomes at the Journal of Human Resources. Authors who attended the same PhD program, worked with, affiliate with the same National Bureau of Economic ...

The FAO-GAEZ crop productivity data are widely used in Economics. However, the existence of measurement error is rarely recognized in the empirical literature. We propose a novel method to partially i...

The epidemiological approach in comparative development uses data on individuals of immigrant origin to study cultural persistence, the determinants o…