A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confi dence in Science With An Application to the Public Goods Game

Luigi Butera, Philip Grossman, Daniel Houser, John List and Marie Claire Villeval

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Abstract: Recently a credibility crisis has taken hold across the social sciences, arguing that a component of Fischer (1935)'s tripod has not been fully embraced: replication. The importance of replications is not debatable scientifically, but researchers and journals' incentives are not sufficient to encourage replications. We analyze a novel, decentralized approach promoting replications through beneficial gains between scholars and editors. We highlight the trade-offs involved in seeking independent replications before submission to journals, and demonstrate the operation of this method via an investigation of the effects of Knightian uncertainty on cooperation in public goods games, a pervasive feature but largely unexplored in the literature.

Keywords: Replication; science; public goods; uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-07-17
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Working Paper: A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science - With an Application to the Public Goods Game (2020)
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Working Paper: A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science - With an Application to the Public Goods Game (2020)
Working Paper: A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With An Application to the Public Goods Game (2020)
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