A replication recipe: List your ingredients before you start cooking

Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Chang, Andrew C ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Data and code files; household formation; housing demand; preanalysis; prespecification; publication bias; replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 85059044873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18646042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2018-39     Document Type: Article

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