microeconomics) can and actually does do a lot of controlled trials.
Do you happen to know anywhere I can read simplified (layman-readable) results of some of these?
Psychology has recently been implicated in the “can’t reproduce your results” scandal, suggesting that a lot of the garbage they generate is due, more or less, to pressure to publish, bias towards confirming expectations, and insufficient safeguards. Do microeconomics trials suffer the same problems?
Do you happen to know anywhere I can read simplified (layman-readable) results of some of these?
Psychology has recently been implicated in the “can’t reproduce your results” scandal, suggesting that a lot of the garbage they generate is due, more or less, to pressure to publish, bias towards confirming expectations, and insufficient safeguards. Do microeconomics trials suffer the same problems?
A couple of links.
Found… Database for registering economic controlled trials and a (unpublished?) paper that suggests economic RCTs have more problems than medical trials.
Excellent, thank you!