We take stock of the major changes in methodology for studying the impacts of international
agricultural research, focusing on the period 2006–2020. Impact assessment of agricultural …

Political elites sometimes seek to delegitimize election results using unsubstantiated claims
of fraud. Most recently, Donald Trump sought to overturn his loss in the 2020 US presidential …

We examine the role of overconfidence in news judgment using two large nationally
representative survey samples. First, we show that three in four Americans overestimate …

This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in
clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that …

Behavioural interventions that leverage social norms are widely used to foster energy
conservation. For instance, home energy reports combine information on others' behaviour …

Open science practices such as posting data or code and pre-registering analyses are
increasingly prescribed and debated in the applied sciences, but the actual popularity and …

A decade ago, the term “research transparency” was not on economists' radar screen, but in
a few short years a scholarly movement has emerged to bring new open science practices …

We design a field experiment to study how the allocation of authority between frontline
procurement officers and their monitors affects performance both directly and through the …

Preregistration is regarded as an important contributor to research credibility. We investigate
this by analyzing the pattern of test statistics from the universe of randomized controlled trial …

Entrepreneurs making decisions under uncertainty are encouraged to evaluate their initial
ideas through hypothesis testing, but entrepreneurial approaches vary in their emphasis on …