JCRE, Volume 4, 2025
The Common Problem of Bad Controls in Tests of the Linguistic Savings Hypothesis. A Comment on Ayres et al. (PNAS, 2023) and related literature
Paul Clist
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-9. DOI: 10.18718/81781.48.
The Stata code and the data are available »here.
Languages and Future-oriented Economic Behavior— Experimental Evidence for Causal Effects. A Reply to Clist (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2025)
Ian Ayres, Tamar Kricheli-Katz and Tali Regev
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-10. DOI: 10.18718/81781.49
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Not All Oil Price Shocks Are Alike. A Replication Study of Kilian (American Economic Review, 2009)
Rich Ryan and Nyakundi Michieka
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-8. DOI: 10.18718/81781.47.
The R codes and the data are available »here.
Bitcoin Adoption and Beliefs in Canada. A Comment on Daniela Balutel, Christopher Henry, Jorge Vásquez, and Marcel Voia (Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022)
Leo Van Hove
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-6. DOI: 10.18718/81781.45.
The excel data and simulation are available »here.
Bitcoin Adoption and Beliefs in Canada. A Reply to Van Hove (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2025)
Daniela Balutel, Christopher Henry, Jorge Vásquez and Marcel C. Voia
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-7. DOI: 10.18718/81781.46.
Public Infrastructure and Economic Development: Evidence from Postal Systems A Replication Study of Rogowski et al. (American Journal of Political Science, 2022)
Florian Neubauer, Julian Rose and Jörg Ankel-Peters
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-5. DOI: 10.18718/81781.44.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Why don’t Firms Hire Young Workers during Recessions? A Replication of Forsythe (The Economic Journal, 2022)
Jonathan Créchet, Jing Cui, Barbara Sadaba and Antoine Sawyer
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-4. DOI: 10.18718/81781.43.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Drivers of Youth Outsiderness in European Labour Markets. A Comment on Marques and Salavisa (Socio-Economic Review, 2017)
Svenja Flechtner and Torsten Heinrich
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-3. DOI: 10.18718/81781.42.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion? A Replication Study of Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (Demography, 2014)
Beatrice Baaba Tawiah and Valentin Schiele
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-2. DOI: 10.18718/81781.41.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa. A Replication Study of Nunn and Wantchekon (American Economic Review, 2011)
Giulio Zanella
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.4, 2025-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.40.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
JCRE, Volume 3, 2024
Need for Cognition, Cognitive Load, and Forewarning do not Moderate Anchoring Effects. A Replication Study of Epley & Gilovich (Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2005; Psychological Science, 2006)
Lukas Röseler, Hannah L. Bögler, Lisa Koßmann, Sabine M. Krueger, Sabrina L. C. Bickenbach, Ricarda Bühler, Jasmin della Guardia, Lisa-Marie A. Köppel, Jarl Möhring, Susanne Ponader, Konstantin Roßmaier, and Jessica Sing
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-8. DOI: 10.18718/81781.38.
The R code and data are available »here.
Does Proactive Policing Really Increase Major Crime? A Replication Study of Sullivan and O’Keeffe (Nature Human Behaviour, 2017)
Aaron Chalfin, David Mitre-Becerril, and Morgan C. Williams, Jr.
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-6. DOI: 10.18718/81781.36.
The R code and data are available »here.
Historical Communist Party Strength and Modern Party Loyalty. A Replication Study of Barceló (PNAS, 2021)
Edmund J. Malesky and Trung-Anh Nguyen
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-5. DOI: 10.18718/81781.35.
The R code and data are available »here.
Omitted Variable Bias and Wartime Legacies. A Reply to Malesky and Nguyen (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, 2024)
Joan Barceló
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-7. DOI: 10.18718/81781.37.
The R code and data are available »here.
Erratum
JCRE Editorial Office
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-9. DOI: 10.18718/81781.39.
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Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists. A Replication Study of Autor, Katz, and Kearney (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008)
Corinne Stephenson
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-4. DOI: 10.18718/81781.34.
The Stata code is available »here.
Migration, Diversity, and Economic Growth. A Replication Study of Bove and Elia (World Development, 2017)
Bianca Balsimelli Ghelli and Luigi Ventura
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-3. DOI: 10.18718/81781.33.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Four Field Experiments: A Replication Study of Bold et al. (American Economic Review, 2022)
Ryan McWay, Karim Nchare, and Pu Sun
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-2. DOI: 10.18718/81781.32.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Why You Should Never Use the Hodrick-Prescott Filter. A Comment on Hamilton (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018)
Alban Moura
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.3, 2024-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.31
The Matlab code and data are available »here.
JCRE, Volume 2, 2023
The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment. A Replication Study of Atwood (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022)
Mara Barschkett, Mathias Huebener, Andreas Leibing, Jan Marcus, and Shushanik Margaryan
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.2, 2023-4. DOI: 10.18718/81781.30.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Knowledge Transfers from Multinational to Domestic Firms: Evidence from Worker Mobility. A Replication Study of Poole (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013)
Stefanie A. Haller, Eoin T. Flaherty, and Ragnhild Balsvik
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.2, 2023-3. DOI: 10.18718/81781.29.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility. A Verification and Reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009)
Victor Gay
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.2, 2023-2. DOI: 10.18718/81781.28.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Giving and Taking in Dictator Games – Differences by Gender? A Replication Study of Chowdhury et al. (Southern Economic Journal, 2017)
Korbinian von Blanckenburg, Eva Tebbe, and Anja Iseke
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.2, 2023-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.27.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
JCRE, Volume 1, 2022
A Proposed Hybrid Effect Size Plus p-Value Criterion. A Comment on Goodman et al. (The American Statistician, 2019)
Peter Pütz, Arne Kramer-Sunderbrink, Robin Tim Dreher, Leona Hoffmann, and Robin Werner
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.1, 2022-4. DOI: 10.18718/81781.26.
The R code is available »here.
Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States. A Comment on Karadja and Prawitz (Journal of Political Economy, 2019)
Pettersson-Lidbom
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.1, 2022-3. DOI: 10.18718/81781.25.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
The Possible Unemployment Cost of Average Inflation Below a Credible Target. A Replication Study of Svensson American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015)
Ramy Oraby
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.1, 2022-2. DOI: 10.18718/81781.24.
The Stata code and data are available »here.
The Relationship between Government and Private Consumption. A Replication of Fiorito & Kollintzas (European Economic Review, 2004)
Zhongchen Song
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol.1, 2022-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.23
The Stata code and data are available »here.
The Journal of Comments and Replication in Economics (JCRE) replaces the previous International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics (IREE). As its successor, JCRE continues to host and maintain IREE’s publications.
IREE, Volume 5, 2021
The Mental Health Cost of Terrorism. A Replication Study of Kim and Albert Kim (Health Economics, 2018)
Tyler Smith and Tom Coupé
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.5, 2021-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.20
The Stata code and data are available »here.
IREE, Volume 4, 2020
The Labour Market Effects of a Refugee Wave. A Replication Study of Peri and Yasenov (Journal of Human Resources, 2019)
Michael Christl
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.4, 2020-4. DOI: 10.18718/81781.19
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Trends in the Gender Wage Gap in the US. A Replication Study of Blau and Kahn (Journal of Economic Literature 2017)
Matthias Collischon
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.4, 2020-2. DOI: 10.18718/81781.17
The Stata code is available »here.
Not Evidence for Baumol’s Cost Disease. A Replication Study of Hartwig (Journal of Health Economics, 2008)
Atanda, Akinwande and W. Robert Reed
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.4, 2020-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.16
The EViews workfile is available »here.
Not Evidence for Baumol’s Cost Disease. A Reply to Atanda and Reed (International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, 2020)
Jochen Hartwig
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.4, 2020-3 DOI: 10.18718/81781.18
IREE, Volume 3, 2019
Semiparametric Value-At-Risk Estimation of Portfolios. A Replication Study of Dias (Journal of Banking & Finance, 2014)
Jiahua Xu
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.3, 2019-6. DOI: 10.18718/81781.15
The Matlab code and data are available »here.
Meta-analysis and Publication Bias: How Well Does the FAT-PET-PEESE Procedure Work? A Replication Study of Alinaghi & Reed (Research Synthesis Methods, 2018)
Sanghyun Hong
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.3, 2019-4. DOI: 10.18718/81781.13
The R code is available »here.
Meta-analysis and Publication Bias: How Well Does the FAT-PET-PEESE Procedure Work? A Reply to Hong (International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, 2019)
W. Robert Reed
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.3, 2019-5. DOI: 10.18718/81781.14
The R code is available »here.
Estimating Microcredit Impact with Low Take-up, Contamination and Inconsistent Data. A Replication Study of Crépon, Devoto, Duflo, and Parienté (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015)
Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux, and François Roubaud
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.3, 2019-3/em>. DOI: 10.18718/81781.12
The R code and data are available »here.
A reply by Bruno Crépon, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, and William Parienté (2019) to an earlier version of this replication study can be found here: “Verifying the internal validity of a flagship RCT: A review of Crépon, Devoto, Duflo and Parienté”: A rejoinder. DIAL WP N°2019-07A.
A reply by Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant-Roux, and François Roubaud to the rejoinder by Bruno Crépon, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, and William Parienté can be found here: Verifying the internal validity of a flagship RCT: A review of Crépon, Devoto, Duflo and Pariente. Rebutting the Rebuttal. DIAL WP N°2019-07B.
Revisiting the Drivers of Natural Gas Prices. A Replication Study of Brown & Yücel (The Energy Journal, 2008)
Gavin Roberts
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.3, 2019-2. DOI: 10.18718/81781.11
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Tweet Sixteen and Pregnant: Missing Links in the Causal Chain from Reality TV to Fertility. A Replication Study of Kearney & Levine (American Economic Review, 2015)
David A. Jaeger, Theodore J. Joyce, and Robert Kaestner
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.3, 2019-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.10
The Stata code and data are available »here.
IREE, Volume 2, 2018
Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment. A Replication Study of Bazen & Marimoutou (Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2002)
Stephen Bazen and Velayoudom Marimoutou
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.2, 2018-5. DOI: 10.18718/81781.9
The replication instructions using STAMP are available »here.
Malaria Eradication in the Americas. A Replication Study of Bleakley (American Economic Journal. Applied Economics, 2010)
David Roodman
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.2, 2018-4. DOI: 10.18718/81781.8
The Stata code and data are available »here.
The Impacts of Hookworm Eradication in the American South. A Replication Study of Bleakley (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007)
David Roodman
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.2, 2018-3. DOI: 10.18718/81781.7
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Editorial
Martina Grunow, Hilmar Schneider, Gert G. Wagner, and Joachim Wagner
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.2, 2018-2. DOI: 10.18718/81781.6
Inflation and Broadband Revisited: Evidence from an OECD Panel. A Replication Study of Yi and Choi (Journal of Policy Modeling, 2005)
Klaus Friesenbichler
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.2, 2018-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.5
The Stata code and data are available »here.
IREE, Volume 1, 2017
Productivity Premia for Many Modes of Internationalization. A Replication Study of Békés and Muraközy (Economics Letters, 2016)
Joachim Wagner
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.1, 2017-4. DOI: 10.18718/81781.4
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Religious Loyalty and Acceptance of Corruption. A Replication Study of Gouda and Park (Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2015)
Joachim Wagner
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.1, 2017-3. DOI: 10.18718/81781.3
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Does Online Availability Increase Citations? A Replication Study of McCabe and Snyder (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015)
Joachim Wagner
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.1, 2017-2. DOI: 10.18718/81781.2
The Stata code and data are available »here.
Firm Size and the Use of Export Intermediaries. A Replication Study of Abel-Koch (The World Economy, 2013)
Joachim Wagner
International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics, Vol.1, 2017-1. DOI: 10.18718/81781.1
The Stata code and data are available »here.