This workshop aims to improve understanding of the current literature on challenges in the quality of social science research, and to teach the latest techniques for developing a reproducible workflow. The social science research community is increasingly emphasizing research transparency and reproducibility as essential components of high quality research, particularly research that is intended to inform program and policy decisions such as impact evaluations. There are currently several suggested best practices in research transparency, including: pre-registering studies (such as with ClinicalTrials.gov or the AEA registry), developing and publishing pre-analysis plans (PAPs), following standard reporting guidelines, publicly sharing data and underlying code, and other practices that enable not only reproducible research, but also reproducible results.
In light of this growing awareness across the social sciences, and following the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) efforts to establish the Evaluation Catalog and initiatives like the Open Data Challenge, MCC and its country counterparts recognize the need to ensure evaluation efforts produce transparent and reproducible research.
This seminar is expected to target 7-10 professionals working at or with MCA Zambia on Compact activities, including: (i) MCA M&E staff, (ii) Innovation Grant Facility staff, (iii) independent evaluators (American Institute for Research and CDC), and other MCA staff.
All across the social sciences we can see a convergence around the ideals of openness and reproducibility. Over the past years, the injection of ways of thinking and working from scientific computing into social science research has helped develop an infrastructure to make this agenda possible....
Both IPA and CEGA aim to support high quality, transparent, reproducible research. The research support staff at both organizations are typically tasked with preparing data and code for publication. However, key steps for preparing data and code take place as early as the study design phase...
This workshop aims to improve understanding of the current literature on challenges in the quality of social science research, and to teach the latest techniques for developing a reproducible workflow. Background The social science research community is increasingly emphasizing research...
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