Jack Fitzgerald
Economics PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute. Working on applied econometrics, replication, and economics of science. https://jack-fitzgerald.github.io. Likes/reposts aren’t endorsements, views are my own.
- My Matters Arising concerning a paper on the legal determinants of terrorism is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com. The original paper is now retracted. To learn why, read on for a story of irregularities, imputations, and impossible values. 1/x doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02347-7
- The original paper by Wolfowicz et al. - henceforth WEA - is about the legal determinants of terrorism. Its title encapsulates its findings, reached using panel data on EU member states from 2006-2021. 2/x www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01695-6
- Pleased to announce that my paper on hypothetical bias in experiments is now published in Experimental Economics! If you're interested in (how we figure out) whether real stakes and incentives matter in experiments, give it a read! 🔗: doi.org/10.1017/eec....
- Had a great time presenting my job market paper at the Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences! 🔗 : osf.io/d7sqr_v1/ #LINOecon #EconSky
- Registration closes July 4! Come join us in-person or online in Amsterdam!
- Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted. Register: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
- Dutch academics, please share - replication games are coming to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on July 19! If you live in the Netherlands, or want a good reason to visit, come take a day to network, hone your skills, and potentially coauthor a paper. Registration: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
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- This will likely be a good initiative, conditional on it not substituting for the journal publishing full comments. Publication is an important incentive for reproducibility/robustness analyses and substantive empirical critiques almost always take more than one page.
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- What academic journal should I start? Wrong answers only
- Reposted by Jack Fitzgerald#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.
- Thank you @carlislerainey.bsky.social for boosting my job market paper! I’’m a fan of your prior work on this topic. If you want to learn more, check out the paper and my BIBAP seminar on it tomorrow, 3/12 7 AM CET/5 PM Sydney time. www.unsw.edu.au/business/beh...
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- I'll be waking up early (7 AM CET) on Tuesday, March 12 to present my job market paper at 5 PM Sydney time! If you're awake too, stop by to hear me talk about equivalence testing, replication-based methods research, and the robustness of null results in economics!
- Relatedly, I also develop new equivalence testing methods for testing running variable (RV) manipulation in RDD. In 36 RDD publications, I find >44% of RV density discontinuities at treatment cutoffs can't be significantly bounded beneath 50% upward jumps. 🧵: bsky.app/profile/jack...
- Reposted by Jack Fitzgerald#GDRI_rep Update 2: I4R sent a report to the original authors for the PLOS One article "“Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country". All authors have now emailed PLOS One to withdraw their names. osf.io/7tzek/
- Reposted by Jack Fitzgerald#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵
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- As a coauthor on the AEJ:AE report, it’s a lot. Oh my god, It’s a lot. In that paper, outcomes are inconsistently handled both in the code and in the field, the paper’s data is connected to a bunch of other experiments, and we find irregularities in the raw survey files.
- I had a wonderful time presenting my job market paper at RWI Essen! Thank you @jrgptrs.bsky.social and Julian Rose for hosting and organizing!
