Ryan C. Briggs

Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research

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It must be very hard to publish null results

Ryan C. Briggs, Jonathan Mellon, Vincent Arel-Bundock

Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has …

A Justification for 80% Power

Ryan C. Briggs

Cohen’s heuristic reason for choosing 80% power (balancing Type I and Type II errors) conveniently arrives at approximately the same number as an approach where one maximizes the marginal gain in power per standard error reduction. I have yet to see someone …

Quantitative Political Science Research Is Greatly Underpowered

Vincent Arel‐Bundock, Ryan C. Briggs, Hristos Doucouliagos, Marco Mendoza Aviña et autres

The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles in 46 areas of the discipline. Under generous …

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Aid targeting

Ryan C. Briggs

This chapter discusses aid targeting in four parts. It begins with an introduction to targeting and a summary of the pros and cons of targeting social programs in low- and middle-income countries. It then discusses aspects of targeting that are unique to …

Beliefs, Values, and Practices in Development Studies

Ryan C. Briggs

This article uses a survey of Development Studies (DS) professors and students in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom to answer three questions about academic DS. DS is defined in part by a commitment to improve the world, and the …

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Beliefs, Values, and Practices in Development Studies

Ryan C. Briggs

This article uses a survey of Development Studies (DS) professors and students in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom to answer three questions about academic DS. DS is defined in part by a commitment to improve the world, and the …

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Incentivizing Responses in International Organization Elite Surveys: Evidence from the World Bank

Mirko Heinzel, Catherine E. Weaver, Ryan C. Briggs

Abstract Scholars of International Organizations (IOs) increasingly use elite surveys to study the preferences and decisions of policymakers. When designing these surveys, one central concern is low statistical power, because respondents are typically recruited from a small and inaccessible population. However, much …

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Evaluation summary and metrics: “Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning”

Ryan C. Briggs

Why we chose this paperThis paper was recommended to us.Our reading of the paper was that it seemed substantively important because it rigorously tested an intervention that may be able to be competitive with GiveWell's top charities, in addition to having environmental …

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Changes in Perceptions of Border Security Influence Desired Levels of Immigration

Ryan C. Briggs, Omer Solodoch

Security concerns about immigration are on the rise. Many countries respond by fortifying their borders. Yet little is known about the influence of border security measures on perceived threat from immigration. Borders might facilitate group identities and spread fear of outsiders. In …

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Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered

Vincent Arel‐Bundock, Ryan C. Briggs, Hristos Doucouliagos, Marco Mendoza Aviña et autres

We analyze the statistical power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles. Even with generous assumptions, the median analysis has about 10% power, and only about 1 in 10 tests have at least 80% power …

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Changes in perceptions of border security influence desired levels of immigration

Ryan C. Briggs, Omer Solodoch

Security concerns about immigration are on the rise. Many countries respond by fortifying their borders. Yet little is known about the influence of border security measures on perceived threat from immigration. Borders might facilitate group identities and spread fear of outsiders. In …

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