Motivation
An important quality characteristic of scientific research is that it findings must be falsifiable. To this end, there is a trend in most empirical disciplines towards making codes and data publicly available whenever possible. This is in part a response to past studies that showed that many findings reported in published articles could not be replicated. Earlier studies showed a large heterogeneity of replicability across journals and disciplines. The field of agricultural economics was not subject to such analysis so far.
Aim & Approach
The aim of this thesis is to understand and compare recent trends in replicability in agricultural economics journals. Starting points are
i) journal policies,
ii) availability of material for replication (data, codes, descriptions…), and
iii) realized replication studies.
The thesis has two parts, a theoretical and an empirical. The theoretical part is a discussion of how replicability should optimally be defined and measured. This part uses and synthesizes a large strand of literature. The empirical part then applies the chosen definition of replicability and quantifies the status quo and trends over the past few years at the top agricultural economics journals
Motivation
An important quality characteristic of scientific research is that it findings must be falsifiable. To this end, there is a trend in most empirical disciplines towards making codes and data publicly available whenever possible. This is in part a response to past studies that showed that many findings reported in published articles could not be replicated. Earlier studies showed a large heterogeneity of replicability across journals and disciplines. The field of agricultural economics was not subject to such analysis so far.
Aim & Approach
The aim of this thesis is to understand and compare recent trends in replicability in agricultural economics journals. Starting points are i) journal policies, ii) availability of material for replication (data, codes, descriptions…), and iii) realized replication studies.
The thesis has two parts, a theoretical and an empirical. The theoretical part is a discussion of how replicability should optimally be defined and measured. This part uses and synthesizes a large strand of literature. The empirical part then applies the chosen definition of replicability and quantifies the status quo and trends over the past few years at the top agricultural economics journals
The aim of this thesis is to understand and compare recent trends in replicability in agricultural economics journals.
The aim of this thesis is to understand and compare recent trends in replicability in agricultural economics journals.
Dr. David Wuepper Prof. Robert Finger
dwuepper@ethz.ch rofinger@ethz.ch
Dr. David Wuepper Prof. Robert Finger dwuepper@ethz.ch rofinger@ethz.ch