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Lab² @labsquare.net · 31/07/2026
☀️ Happy summer from all of us at Lab²! 📚 If you're looking for some summer reading, we'd love to share our recent publication with you that explores how having daughters affects political preferences. The results might surprise you! Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Does having daughters affect political preferences? Using meta-analytic tools on many surveys
This study investigates whether having daughters impacts political preferences and whether this effect varies across European countries. We estimate e…
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 06/05/2026
📢 You're invited! 🗓 May 7 |Lyon Join us for the Lyon–Berlin Workshop on Behavioral Research & Meta‑Science A full day of talks on how we conduct, evaluate & strengthen behavioral science — from moral trade‑offs to data access & large‑scale reproducibility projects.
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 17/04/2026
📚 We are pleased to share a recent study authored by several of our partnering researchers at Innsbruck University, entitled “Collective Evidence on Behavioral Interventions Targeting Carbon Pricing Support: A Many-Designs Approach with 55 Studies,” available as a pre-print on Research Square.
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Collective Evidence on Behavioral Interventions Targeting Carbon Pricing Support: A Many-Designs Approach with 55 Studies
There is an urgent need to reduce carbon emissions globally to limit the damages caused by climate change. Most economists agree that a carbon price is an effective and cost-efficient policy to mitiga...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 10/04/2026
📣 We’re excited to spotlight a compelling new collection of research published in nature, exploring replication, robustness, and reproducibility across the behavioral and social sciences.
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Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences
Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 27/02/2026
📣 Introducing ManyLabsDACH! We are delighted to announce our new large-scale crowd-science study spanning Germany (D), Austria (A), and Switzerland (CH). Each participating lab will submit one design proposal, and all participating labs will then jointly select the design to be implemented.
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 10/02/2026
🎉 We are in the middle of celebrating the annual #LoveDataWeek event organized by the Center for Open Science. Don't miss out on this chance through February 13th to benefit from a curated set of webinars, help guides, and practical resources. 🔗 Learn more & participate: mailchi.mp/cos/los_webi...
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Celebrating Love Data Week 2026: “Where’s the Data?”
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 03/02/2026
📣 We are so excited to welcome Maxime Perodaud, visiting from the Université Côte d'Azur, to Lab² at the WZB in Berlin this week. It is always a pleasure to host researchers and to celebrate the exchange of ideas that drives our work forward.
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 30/01/2026
📣 We're excited to welcome Yifan Yang, visiting from the Stockholm School of Economics, to Lab² at the WZB in Berlin through the month of June. Looking forward to the exchange of fresh ideas and exciting work ahead!
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 29/01/2026
⏰Call for Papers - Journal of Economic Psychology Special Issue on "Advancing Reliability in the Social Sciences: Meta-Science, Transparency, and Crowd Research." Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2026. 🔗More info: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 29/10/2025
More than glad to have been part of Leibniz Open Science Day 2025 — “Better science for better policies.” Slides soon available here: www.zbw.eu/en/about-us/... Thanks to the organizers and all participants. labsquare.net #OpenScience
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Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies
Where? Berlin. When? 27 October 2025. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of scientific research findings.
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 31/07/2025
🚨Job Opportunity at WZB Berlin Social Science Center WZB’s Markets and Choice department is hiring Student Research Assistants for two major projects: - Lab^2 (@leventneyse.bsky.social) - Mental Models and Discrimination (@kaibarron.bsky.social) 🔗Learn more & apply: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/398...
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Student Research Assistants (ID 350)
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading-edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 28/07/2025
🔁 Berlin Replication Games – Call for Participation! 📅 Date: September 30, 2025 📍 Location: Freie Universität Berlin (online participation also available)
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 17/07/2025
„Big-Team Science enables structured, collaborative research.“ In his interview in the ZBW Open Science Magazine, Lab² member David Albrecht reflects on what makes Big-Team Science valuable. 👉 Read the full interview (in German): open-science-future.zbw.eu/big-team-sci... @da-lbrecht.bsky.social
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Big-Team-Science ermöglicht strukturierte, gemeinsame Forschung
Big-Team-Science zeichnet sich durch eine koordinierte Zusammenarbeit vieler Forschungsteams aus, die jeweils definierte Beiträge entlang...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 23/06/2025
🎤 Guest Talk Join us this Friday (June 27) at 10:00 at WZB (Room E425) for a talk by Diego Aycinena (U-Penn) on "Dictator Games with Different Endowment Sources". 🎲
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 23/06/2025
🎬 Behind the Scenes Seminar The next edition, featuring Dražen Prelec, takes place on 26 June at 4 PM (UK time) 🕓 Don’t miss out — register here: 🔗 forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 10/06/2025
📢 Upcoming Talk We’re excited to welcome Filippos Exadaktylos from the University of Barcelona this Friday at WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where he will be giving a talk on "Social norms across societies" at 10:00 in D216-17. 🌍 Filippos Exadaktylos: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 19/05/2025
Why is reproducibility different from replicability? What is robustness reproducibility? And why do we care? Our new material breaks it all down. Explore our second release here: 📘 labsquare.net/materials/ed...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 13/05/2025
We are absolutely stoked. 200 teams applied to join the #ManyDaughters multi-analyst study 👥 led by Lab² researchers. 🙏 Thank you to everyone who registered for your time and interest. We’ve now admitted 160 teams to participate 📊 and look forward to the collaboration ahead 🤝 #ManyDaughters
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 14/04/2025
🔔 Reminder: Call for Participation! 🔔 Two more weeks to join Lab²'s multi-analyst study on how having daughters affects various outcomes. 🗓️ Deadline: April 27, 2025 🔗More details and registration: www.manydaughters.com #ManyDaughters
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 31/03/2025
🔔 Call for Participation 🔔 Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes. Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 21/03/2025
🎉 Learn about the importance of Pre-Analysis Plans (PAPs) and Registered Reports (RRs) in research and how they contribute to more reliable findings. 🔍 Explore our round-up material here: labsquare.net/materials/ed... 🎓 More to come soon!
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 25/02/2025
Do you want to enhance your understanding of preregistrations? We invite you to explore preregistration as a research practice in this webinar 👉 “Preregistration Essentials: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Do It” by COS. 📅 Feb 26, 8 PM CET 🎙️ Sign up here: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Economic Inquiry @ei-sky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Our Editorial Board has chosen our Paper of the Year for 2024. This paper presents important results regarding the trustworthiness of economic research. Congratulations to Anna, Magnus and Yifan! doi.org/10.1111/ecin...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 14/02/2025
🔍 Check out the new online Behind-the-Scenes Seminar Series by Severine Toussaert and @vatsalecon.bsky.social – a new way to explore research! Instead of just results, speakers dive into the research process—challenges, decisions & surprises. Plus, live audience surveys!
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 12/02/2025
Looking back on our Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop last Friday. 📖 Thank you to all attendees who joined our half day of presentations, networking and discussions and big thanks to our invited speakers Valeria Zurla and Antoine Bertheau.🎙️
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 10/02/2025
📢 Talk at WZB 📢 Join us tomorrow at 11:00 AM in Room E425 at WZB for a talk by Zacharias Maniadis on his latest working paper: “‘Identify the Expert‘: An Experimental Study in Economic Advice“, co-authored with Theodoros Alysandratos, Aristotelis Boukouras, and Sotiris Georganas. See you there!
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 06/02/2025
☀️ Applications are open for the 3rd Summer School on Open Science in Innsbruck! 🔍 Explore the "rules of the game called science" & tackle challenges in research credibility 📅 June 30 – July 4, 2025 | On-site @uniinnsbruck More info & application here: bit.ly/4aX1inb @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 04/02/2025
📢 Call for Papers! 📢 The Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum 2025 is hosting a workshop on ‘External Validity, Generalizability and Replicability of Economic Experiments’ on June 13, 2025, in Barcelona. 📝 Submit your paper by February 28, 2025! 🔗 Learn more: events.bse.eu/live/files/5...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 31/01/2025
🚨 Call for Submissions – SOEP-IS 2026 Want to implement your own survey module in a large representative sample? Consider the German Socioeconomic Panel Innovation Sample. The call is open until 31 March 2025! 🔗 More info: www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c....
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 22/01/2025
📣 Upcoming Event The Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop will be taking place on the 7th of February. Half day of networking and discussions and two exiting talks by our invited speakers Valeria Zurla & Antoine Bertheau @bertheau.bsky.social. 👉 Program and Sign-up Link: www.wzb.eu/de/node/85211
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 17/01/2025
📢 Save the date! The Metascience 2025 conference, hosted by the Research on Research Institute, is happening June 30–July 2 at University College London. Proposals are due by February 7. ⏳ Learn more: opusproject.eu/openscience-...
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Metascience 2025: A Global Summit to Advance the Science of Science - Open and Universal Science (OPUS) Project
Metascience, the study of science itself, has rapidly gained momentum as a transformative field. By applying scientific methods to analyze and improve the research system, it has attracted a diverse a...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 13/01/2025
Starting 2025 with an exciting publication alert! 🚨 Lab² researchers (@flxhlzmstr.bsky.social and Magnus Johanesson) and co-authors explored how structured elicitation protocols can predict the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints.
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Predicting the replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints - Nature Human Behaviour
This study assessed COVID-19 social science preprints’ replicability using structured groups. Both beginners and more-experienced participants used a elicitation protocol to make better-than-chance pr...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 16/12/2024
🎄 Looking for a research boost?🎄 Check out CClaRA, the Causal Claims Research Assistant:
1️⃣ Quickly extract and visualize causal graphs from any paper.
2️⃣ Easily search for papers by causal claims, concept nodes, authors, fields, and more.
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Causal Claims - CClaRA - Causal Claims RA
Welcome to the Causal Claims Research Assistant (CClaRA) Built on Causal Graph of Economics. Access CClaRA A literature review tool grounded on the knowledge graph. Search for papers by causal claim...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 06/12/2024
Exciting update from the Center for Open Science (@cos.io)! Lab² is happy to see the new TOP25 Guidelines highlight replication & many-analyst studies as key to verifying empirical research 🌟🔍 Read more: www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 29/11/2024
"Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences" were center stage at #LeibnizOpenScienceDay 2024. An inspiring day exchanging and discussing replication, meta-analyses, and transparency in research. 🙌 Big thanks to ZBW, @rwi.bsky.social, and @wzb.bsky.social – Looking forward to next year‘s Open Science Day!
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 26/11/2024
📣 Don‘t miss out! The European Economic Review now features a special section on Experimental Replication. Submit or explore short replication studies of lab or online experiments. Learn more 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 22/11/2024
📢 Upcoming Event: We’re sharing this great opportunity to enhance your research skills! Join "Open Science and Reproducible Research in RStudio and Jupyter Notebook", organized by Infra4NextGen (I4NG). 🗓️ Dates: 28–29 November 2024 🌐 Location: Online
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 20/11/2024
🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨 Lab² researchers (Felix Holzmeister (@flxhlzmstr.bsky.social), Magnus Johanesson, Taisuke Imai and Anna Dreber) and further co-authors tested the power of decision markets in selecting online social science experiments for replication.
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Lab² @labsquare.net · 15/11/2024
📣Call for replication papers: VOLUNTAS is now accepting submissions for the upcoming Special Issue on Building Cumulative Evidence: Advancing Nonprofit and Civil Society Research through Replication. link.springer.com/journal/1126...
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