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In July 2023, the School of Economics at UEA, in association with the Institute for Replication (I4R), had the pleasure of hosting the Norwich Replication Games on the University of East Anglia campus. The Institute for Replication was created to form a permanent network of scientists interested in reproducibility and replicability, including graduate students, academics, and individuals working for governmental agencies and research institutes. The institute aims to promote and generate reproductions and replications of experimental and (mostly) non-experimental studies.
Reproducibility and replicability are vital to science as it helps make science a self-correcting system, allowing us to assess the reliability and validity of the empirical result. Put differently, the purpose of scientific publishing is the dissemination of robust research findings, exposing them to the scrutiny of peers. Replication can improve credibility within empirical research, representing a key input in economic policy design.
The Norwich Replication Games aimed to promote and generate replications and disseminations, strengthen the visibility of researchers at the University of East Anglia and the network of social scientists, and advance the training of the next generation of young economists. The event was a great success with over 45 national and international participants joining together to replicate 11 papers. The findings of the workshop will be summarised in a published meta-paper where all participants of the workshop will co-author the paper. Additionally, Economic Inquiry has issued a call for papers for a special issue, "On the Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics" which will be co-edited by Abel Brodeur, Michalis Drouvelis and Farasat Bokhari.
To find out more about the Institute for Replications, and any future Replication Games, please visit https://i4replication.org/ and for further information on the special issue, see https://weai.org/news/view/50