Seminars

Abstract: The open science movement has gained significant momentum over the past decade, with pre-registration and pre-analysis plans at the center of ongoing debates. In this talk, we discuss the transparency of experimental research more broadly, drawing on evidence from four related research projects. In the first part, we examine the adoption of pre-registration in experimental economics by analyzing observational trends alongside survey data. Next, we assess how many of these pre-registered studies resulted in publicly accessible outputs by linking data from all field RCTs registered in the AEA Registry between 2013 and 2016 with newly assembled data identifying research outputs associated with these trials. Finally, we present findings from a feasibility study in which experimental economists reflect on the life cycle of their research projects.