Jörg Ankel-Peters
@jrgptrs.bsky.social
development & environmental economist. energy access, climate policy, replication & meta-science. RWI & I4R. #FirstGen bit.ly/40e2aQj
To be fair to @richardtol.bsky.social - exactly the effects modeled in FUND 20+ years ago
Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · last wk.🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This year I joined the editorial team of @jcre.bsky.social, the Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) as a Co-Editor. I'm especially happy that the first submission I handled from start to finish has now been published—together with a reply from the original authors.
JCRE@jcre.bsky.social · 2w agoNew in JCRE: Does Mask Usage Correlate with Excess Mortality? Findings from 24 European Countries. A Comment on Tausk and Spira (BMC Public Health, 2025) by Victor Rangel.
The call of metascience - Brian Nosek learned in grad school that science is actually about getting papers and grants, but reading luminaries in the field enlightened him to the solutions to the problems he encountered.
We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Assistant Professor in Metascience
Personal type: Scientific staff
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Our next Leibniz Open Science Day is coming up on Nov 17 in Berlin! Submit your paper if you do research on science. We welcome submissions across all areas of meta-science. Keynote by @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social! www.zbw.eu/en/about-us/...
Our next Leibniz Open Science Day is coming up on Nov 17 in Berlin! Submit your paper if you do research on science. We welcome submissions across all areas of meta-science. Keynote by @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social! www.zbw.eu/en/about-us/...
@i4replication.bsky.social is doing a great job facilitating *debates* about methodology and scientific practises. One can read the arguments and make up their minds: much of the argumentation is made public (instead of being discussed among the editors or other small circles).
Jörg Ankel-Peters@jrgptrs.bsky.social · last mo.The debate about Borjas/Breznau's paper on ideological bias in migration research is out now @i4replication.bsky.social. With a comment by Katrin Auspurg & Josef Brüderl: hdl.handle.net/10419/341575 And a reply by the original authors: hdl.handle.net/10419/341576
The debate about Borjas/Breznau's paper on ideological bias in migration research is out now @i4replication.bsky.social. With a comment by Katrin Auspurg & Josef Brüderl: hdl.handle.net/10419/341575 And a reply by the original authors: hdl.handle.net/10419/341576
An update on our log-like specifications paper! We’ve updated our recommendations and added new commands in Stata and R for one of our recommended alternatives. 1/ osf.io/preprints/me...
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Jack Fitzgerald@jackfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew preprint! We reanalyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/ doi.org/10.31222/osf...
The debate about Borjas/Breznau's paper on ideological bias in migration research is out now @i4replication.bsky.social. With a comment by Katrin Auspurg & Josef Brüderl: hdl.handle.net/10419/341575 And a reply by the original authors: hdl.handle.net/10419/341576
Maybe we just have to stop calling it Air Conditioning/Klimaanlage. AC is what stupid, wasteful Americans use. In Germany, we use energy efficient Sommerwaermepumpen
The welfare magnet hypothesis revisited. New discussion paper @i4replication.bsky.social. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
The welfare magnet hypothesis revisited. New discussion paper @i4replication.bsky.social. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
If you are at the @dvpw.bsky.social #Dreiländertagung getting up early tomorrow is worth it to come to the panel on "Science, Research, and Methods" which I have the pleasure of chairing where @markus-gastinger.eu, @paulbederke.bsky.social, @dielea.bsky.social and others will present exciting work.
The reply to our comment is now online at AEJ:Applied. The broader takeaway: should we trust an IV if removing coding errors requires a different first stage? www.mollylipscomb.com/_files/ugd/a...
Jörg Ankel-Peters@jrgptrs.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew @i4replication.bsky.social DP: We replicated the seminal Lipsomb et al. paper on electrification in Brazil - and found consequential coding errors. Turns out the paper is based on a fragile IV. After many years, the replication is forthcoming in AEJ:Applied. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
The reply to our comment is now online at AEJ:Applied. The broader takeaway: should we trust an IV if removing coding errors requires a different first stage? www.mollylipscomb.com/_files/ugd/a...
Jörg Ankel-Peters@jrgptrs.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew @i4replication.bsky.social DP: We replicated the seminal Lipsomb et al. paper on electrification in Brazil - and found consequential coding errors. Turns out the paper is based on a fragile IV. After many years, the replication is forthcoming in AEJ:Applied. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
"Different science reformers have distinct core hypotheses about what has gone wrong and what is most tractable to fix." By @calebwatney.bsky.social and Jenn Gustetic
The Six Camps of Metascience
A field guide for policymakers (and everyone who cares about American science).
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📢 Call for Papers! We are partnering with the Journal of Economic Surveys on a special issue: Reproducibility and Meta-Science in Economics. Submission deadline: 1 March 2027. Details in thread 🧵
New DP @i4replication.bsky.social : An Empirical Assessment of Computational Reproducibility in Sociology. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
I suspect there is an ideological bias in how people respond to a potentially ideologically biased coding error in research on ideological bias in the production of research.
So we are actually quite happy with the retraction outcome at PLOS One :) We simply want to highlight how mission impossible it is to publish comments. P.S. See also this blog post on the American Economic Review: www.i4replication.org/blog/the-van....
Incentives to reproduce and replicate articles are so bad. Even when your comment leads to the retraction of a PLOS One article, the reward is a (10 days late) email with a thank you at the bottom. Retraction notice: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... But we are not complaining about PLOS One 🧵
New @i4replication.bsky.social DP: We replicated the seminal Lipsomb et al. paper on electrification in Brazil - and found consequential coding errors. Turns out the paper is based on a fragile IV. After many years, the replication is forthcoming in AEJ:Applied. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
New paper by @meganstevenson.bsky.social now appearing @i4replication.bsky.social & forthcoming in the JEL. Economics is fundamentally about how incentives affect behavior — yet incentives in our own research practices are largely ignored. Humans in the loop! www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
Post-Instrument Bias (Also: poli sci people doing what is beneath Real Rigorous Econometricians™... umm, doing the Lord's work.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ten years ago, we published what became my first meta-scientific paper. External validity is mainstream today, but I’m not sure scientific practice has improved much. Perhaps it’s time for a “10 years after” piece, Ziliak/McCloskey style. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Extraordinary application of the Cincelli & Hazlett sensitivity analysis to the case of overcrediting in forest protection projects. The carbon credit industry claimed that overcrediting accusations are due to unobservables. The paper shows this is highly unlikely. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper: climate policy urgency depends strongly on normative assumptions. Discounting, equity weights, risk attitudes & technology optimism can generate radically different policy recommendations. Climate policy urgency is therefore deeply political. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
