Pre-analysis Plans and Study Registration in Social Science Research
This one-day meeting brought together a select group of researchers from across disciplines – including Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Statistics – to discuss the use of pre-analysis plans and study registries. The goal of the meeting was to understand the promise, as well as limitations, of recent developments in this area across different social science disciplines, and discuss possible ways forward.
This event was by invitation only.
Event Photos
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Program
8:30-9am: Coffee and breakfast
9-9:30am: Welcome, introductions and overview
Ted Miguel (UC Berkeley), Kevin Esterling (UC Riverside)
9:30-10:30am: The use of pre-analysis plans in Economics
Discussant: Arprajit Mahajan (UCLA)
10:30-10:45am: Coffee Break
10:45-11:45am: Pre-specification in Statistics and Clinical trials
Discussant: Bryan Graham (U.C. Berkeley)
11:45-12:45pm: Lunch
12:45-1:45pm: Trial registration in Political Science
Jeremy Weinstein (Stanford), David Laitin (Stanford)
Discussants: Kevin Esterling (U.C. Riverside), Don Green (Columbia)
1:45-2:45pm: Increasing research transparency in Psychology
Brian Nosek (University of Virginia), Leif Nelson (U.C. Berkeley)
Discussant: Gabe Lenz (U.C. Berkeley)
2:45-3:00pm: Coffee break
3:00-4:30pm: Action-oriented closing session: Discussion of unresolved issues, potential work products and registration platforms
Moderators (structured discussion): Kevin Esterling (U.C. Riverside), Ted Miguel (U.C. Berkeley), Carson Christiano (U.C. Berkeley)
4:30-5:30pm: Optional happy hour
Organizers
Kevin Esterling, UC Riverside Department of Political Science (kevin.esterling@ucr.edu)
Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley Department of Economics (emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu)
Contact
Jeanette Aguilar, UC Berkeley CEGA (jaguilar@berkeley.edu)
Meeting Resources
Kate Casey and Ted Miguel: Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts using a Pre-analysis Plan
Alan Hubbard and Mark Van der Laan: Learning From Data
Ben Olken: J-PAL hypothesis registry website
David Laitin: Fisheries Management
Macartan Humphreys, Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, and Peter van der Windt: Fishing, Commitment, and Communication: A Proposal for Comprehensive Nonbinding Research Registration
Jeremy Weinstein: Draft Proposal for a PREPS
Participants
Angeli Kirk (UC Berkeley), Jeanette Aguilar (UC Berkeley), Jas Sekhon (UC Berkeley), Josh Cohen (Stanford; Apple), Joan Hicks (UC Berkeley), Elizabeth Bailey (UC Berkeley), Catherine Wolfram (UC Berkeley), Alan Gerber (Yale), Stuart Buck (Arnold Foundation), Lauren Falcao (UC Berkeley), Cari Tuna (Goodventures), Sibo Lu (Sloan Foundation), Colin Camerer (CalTech), David Broockman (UC Berkeley), Pierre Bachas (UC Berkeley), Simon Galle (UC Berkeley)
