econometrics, programmingLike most fields that rely on statistical analyses, economics has suffered from a few well-publicized coding errors (most notably the Foote and Goetz finding that when correcting Donohue and Levitt’s programming error in the abortion/crime paper the conclusion is reversed), and likely suffers from far more which are never discovered.
What solutions have other fields used to ameliorate this problem, and how might the incentives of researchers be changed to encourage them to submit to these changes?
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