Brown Bag seminar | Reproducibility in the Social Sciences: Lessons learned for students, researchers, and institutions from 1,000 articles with Lars Vilhuber

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University, presenting “Reproducibility in the Social Sciences: Lessons learned for students, researchers, and institutions from 1,000 articles”.

Start time: 2022-09-05 at 12:05

End time: 2022-09-05 at 13:00

Location: Sveavägen 65, room 320

The seminar speaker is Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University, who will present “Reproducibility in the Social Sciences: Lessons learned for students, researchers, and institutions from 1,000 articles”.

Abstract

The American Economic Association's Data Editor has reviewed more than 1,000 empirical articles since July 2019, and worked with authors to improve the reproducibility of their research compendia (replication packages). Some lessons emerge from this work. In this presentation, I will focus on lessons for young scholars (students and young researchers), on possible lessons even for more seasoned researchers. Students and researchers are embedded within institutions, and I will discuss the kind of support that institutions (universities, data providers, compute services) should be providing to students, faculty, and researchers, for a robust, reproducible, and transparent science enterprise.

Lars Vilhuber is a professor in the Department of Economics at Cornell University, a Senior Research Associate at the ILR School at Cornell University, and Executive Director of ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute. He is the American Economic Association‘s Data Editor, affiliated with the U.S. Census Bureau (Center for Economic Studies, CES).