INCHER Colloquium, 22. May 2024: "Replications and research data: Evidence among economic journals"

Lecture by Professorin Dr. Katarina Zigova (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz)

The idea of sharing research data in economics is verifiable almost 100 years old. However, journals started only slowly in formal adopting of policies on research data into their guidelines. Up to date there is no study documenting on larger scale this development. In this paper we contribute by chronological overview of research data policies adoption among the 110 top academic journals in economics using variety of sources and attempting for high precision in policy introductions and changes. In the second part of the paper we quantify, in a panel regression framework, the effect of the policy introduction on replication incidence outcome. Our findings show that the research data policy leads on average to an additional replicated article every 5 years. The effect doubles for top journals and for journals with high levels of policy compliance. Most effects materialize only when availability of research data becomes a requirement for publication.

Katarina Zigova currently holds an Assistant Professorship in Personnel Economics at the University of Zurich. Before she has been a postdoctoral researcher at INCHER Kassel and at the University of Konstanz. During her postdoc she has been visiting Deakin University in Melbourne. She holds a doctoral degree in Quantitative Economics and Finance from University of Konstanz. Her research interests lie the fields of Economics of Education and Science.

The INCHER lectures in summer semester 2024 are hybrid events.
Zoom participation only after prior registration (koch@incher.uni-kassel.de)

Venue: INCHER, University of Kassel, meeting room 4102, Mönchebergstraße 17
34125 Kassel