Credibility Gap - Evaluating and Improving Empirical Research in the Social Sciences

In this book, the authors provide a framework for evaluating reproducibility, replicability and generalizability of empirical research in the social sciences. They define different types of reproducibility and replicability and show how they can be measured to evaluate the credibility of published findings.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. p-values, power and p-hacking 3. Pre-registration 4. A framework for evaluating reproducibility and replicability 5. Results from large-scale reproducibility studies 6. Results from large-scale replicability studies 7. Predicting replications 8. A framework for evaluating heterogeneity and generalizability 9. Empirical estimates of heterogeneity 10. Meta-analysis and aggregating research findings 11. Debugging observational data studies 12. Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anna Dreber is Professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
Magnus Johannesson is Professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anna Johannesson Dreber, Dreber Anna, Johannesson Magnus
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032942896
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294289-6
• Seiten: 151
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Mathematik > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Sonstiges; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, MATHEMATICS / Mathematical Analysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, Economic theory & philosophy, Probability & statistics, Mathematical modelling, Econometrics, Probability and statistics, economic forecasting, Economic theory and philosophy, Research methods: general, Econometrics and economic statistics