The robustness reproducibility... Note

The robustness reproducibility of the American Economic Review

We estimate the robustness reproducibility of key results from 17 non-experimental AER papers published in 2013 (8 papers) and 2022/23 (9 papers). We then subject each robustness report to two independent, expert reviews. Including robustness tests rated as equally or more valid than the original analyses by expert reviewers, the fraction of significant robustness tests […]