Papers in economics ‘not reproducible’

Fears that discipline is particularly susceptible to statistical ‘hacking’ of data to gain a positive result

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October 21, 2015

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February 16, 2017

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Misleading models? Results of only 49 per cent of papers could be replicated

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Print headline: Voodoo economics: most papers in the field are ‘not reproducible’

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