nep-sog New Economics Papers
on Sociology of Economics
Issue of 2024‒04‒22
three papers chosen by
Jonas Holmström, Axventure AB


  1. Hiding the elephant: the tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists By Foster, Gigi; Frijters, Paul
  2. Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope By Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai; Brailey, Thomas; Briggs, Ryan; de Gendre, Alexandra; Dupraz, Yannick; Fiala, Lenka; Gabani, Jacopo; Gauriot, Romain; Haddad, Joanne; Lima, Goncalo; Ankel-Peters, Jörg; Dreber, Anna; Campbell, Douglas; Kattan, Lamis; Marino Fages, Diego; Mierisch, Fabian; Sun, Pu; Wright, Taylor; Connolly, Marie; Hoces de la Guardia, Fernando; Johannesson, Magnus; Miguel, Edward; Vilhuber, Lars; Abarca, Alejandro; Acharya, Mahesh; Adjisse, Sossou Simplice; Akhtar, Ahwaz; Ramirez Lizardi, Eduardo Alberto; Albrecht, Sabina; Andersen, Synøve Nygaard; Andlib, Zubaria; Arrora, Falak; Ash, Thomas; Bacher, Etienne; Bachler, Sebastian; Bacon, Félix; Bagues, Manuel; Balogh, Timea; Batmanov, Alisher; Barschkett, Mara; Basdil, B. Kaan; Baxa, Jaromír; Becker, Sascha; Beeder, Monica; Beland, Louis-Philippe; Bello, Abdel Hamid; Markovits, Daniel Benenson; Benjamin, Grant; Bergeron, Thomas; Blimpo, Moussa P.; Binetti, Marco; Bonander, Carl; Bonneau, Joseph; Borbáth, Endre; Topstad Borgen, Nicolai; Topstad Borgen, Solveig; Borowsky, Jonathan; Brini, Elisa; Brown, Myriam; Brun, Martín; Bruns, Stephan; Buliskeria, Nino; Calef, Andrea; Cameron, Alistair; Campa, Pamela; Campos-Rodríguez, Santiago; Cantone, Giulio Giacomo; Carpena, Fenella; Carter, Perry; Castañeda Dower, Paul; Castek, Ondrej; Caviglia-Harris, Jill; Strand, Gabriella Chauca; Chen, Shi; Chzhen, Asya; Chung, Jong; Collins, Jason; Coppock, Alexander; Cordeau, Hugo; Couillard, Ben; Crechet, Jonathan; Crippa, Lorenzo; Cui, Jeanne; Czymara, Christian; Daarstad, Haley; Dao, Danh Chi; Dao, Dong; Schmandt, Marco David; de Linde, Astrid; De Melo, Lucas; Deer, Lachlan; De Vera, Micole; Dimitrova, Velichka; Dollbaum, Jan Fabian; Dollbaum, Jan Matti; Donnelly, Michael; Huynh, Luu Duc Toan; Dumbalska, Tsvetomira; Duncan, Jamie; Duong, Kiet Tuan; Duprey, Thibaut; Dworschak, Christoph; Ellingsrud, Sigmund; Elminejad, Ali; Eissa, Yasmine; Erhart, Andrea; Etingin-Frati, Giulian; Fatemi-Pour, Elaheh; Federice, Alexa; Feld, Jan; Fenig, Guidon; Firouzjaeiangalougah, Mojtaba; Fleisje, Erlend; Fortier-Chouinard, Alexandre; Engel, Julia Francesca; Fries, Tilman; Fortier, Reid; Fréchet, Nadjim; Galipeau, Thomas; Gallegos, Sebastián; Gangji, Areez; Gao, Xiaoying; Garnache, Cloé; Gáspár, Attila; Gavrilova, Evelina; Ghosh, Arijit; Gibney, Garreth; Gibson, Grant; Godager, Geir; Goff, Leonard; Gong, Da; González, Javier; Gretton, Jeremy; Griffa, Cristina; Grigoryeva, Idaliya; Grøtting, Maja; Guntermann, Eric; Guo, Jiaqi; Gugushvili, Alexi; Habibnia, Hooman; Häffner, Sonja; Hall, Jonathan D.; Hammar, Olle; Kordt, Amund Hanson; Hashimoto, Barry; Hartley, Jonathan S.; Hausladen, Carina I.; Havránek, Tomáš; Hazen, Jacob; He, Harry; Hepplewhite, Matthew; Herrera-Rodriguez, Mario; Heuer, Felix; Heyes, Anthony; Ho, Anson T. Y.; Holmes, Jonathan; Holzknecht, Armando; Hsu, Yu-Hsiang Dexter; Hu, Shiang-Hung; Huang, Yu-Shiuan; Huebener, Mathias; Huber, Christoph; Huynh, Kim P.; Irsova, Zuzana; Isler, Ozan; Jakobsson, Niklas; Frith, Michael James; Jananji, Raphaël; Jayalath, Tharaka A.; Jetter, Michael; John, Jenny; Forshaw, Rachel Joy; Juan, Felipe; Kadriu, Valon; Karim, Sunny; Kelly, Edmund; Dang, Duy Khanh Hoang; Khushboo, Tazia; Kim, Jin; Kjellsson, Gustav; Kjelsrud, Anders; Kotsadam, Andreas; Korpershoek, Jori; Krashinsky, Lewis; Kundu, Suranjana; Kustov, Alexander; Lalayev, Nurlan; Langlois, Audrée; Laufer, Jill; Lee-Whiting, Blake; Leibing, Andreas; Lenz, Gabriel; Levin, Joel; Li, Peng; Li, Tongzhe; Lin, Yuchen; Listo, Ariel; Liu, Dan; Lu, Xuewen; Lukmanova, Elvina; Luscombe, Alex; Lusher, Lester R.; Lyu, Ke; Ma, Hai; Mäder, Nicolas; Makate, Clifton; Malmberg, Alice; Maitra, Adit; Mandas, Marco; Marcus, Jan; Margaryan, Shushanik; Márk, Lili; Martignano, Andres; Marsh, Abigail; Masetto, Isabella; McCanny, Anthony; McManus, Emma; McWay, Ryan; Metson, Lennard; Kinge, Jonas Minet; Mishra, Sumit; Mohnen, Myra; Möller, Jakob; Montambeault, Rosalie; Montpetit, Sébastien; Morin, Louis-Philippe; Morris, Todd; Moser, Scott; Motoki, Fabio; Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Musulan, Andreea; Musumeci, Marco; Nabin, Munirul; Nchare, Karim; Neubauer, Florian; Nguyen, Quan M. P.; Nguyen, Tuan; Nguyen-Tien, Viet; Niazi, Ali; Nikolaishvili, Giorgi; Nordstrom, Ardyn; Nüß, Patrick; Odermatt, Angela; Olson, Matt; Øien, Henning; Ölkers, Tim; Oliver i Vert, Miquel; Oral, Emre; Oswald, Christian; Ousman, Ali; Özak, Ömer; Pandey, Shubham; Pavlov, Alexandre; Pelli, Martino; Penheiro, Romeo; Park, RyuGyung; Pérez Martel, Eva; Petrovičová, Tereza; Phan, Linh; Prettyman, Alexa; Procházka, Jakub; Putri, Aqila; Quandt, Julian; Qiu, Kangyu; Nguyen, Loan Quynh Thi; Rahman, Andaleeb; Rea, Carson H.; Reiremo, Adam; Renée, Laëtitia; Richardson, Joseph; Rivers, Nicholas; Rodrigues, Bruno; Roelofs, William; Roemer, Tobias; Rogeberg, Ole; Rose, Julian; Roskos-Ewoldsen, Andrew; Rosmer, Paul; Sabada, Barbara; Saberian, Soodeh; Salamanca, Nicolas; Sator, Georg; Sawyer, Antoine; Scates, Daniel; Schlüter, Elmar; Sells, Cameron; Sen, Sharmi; Sethi, Ritika; Shcherbiak, Anna; Sogaolu, Moyosore; Soosalu, Matt; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Sovani, Manali; Spencer, Noah; Staubli, Stefan; Stans, Renske; Stewart, Anya; Stips, Felix; Stockley, Kieran; Strobel, Stephenson; Struby, Ethan; Tang, John; Tanrisever, Idil; Yang, Thomas Tao; Tastan, Ipek; Tatić, Dejan; Tatlow, Benjamin; Seuyong, Féraud Tchuisseu; Thériault, Rémi; Thivierge, Vincent; Tian, Wenjie; Toma, Filip-Mihai; Totarelli, Maddalena; Tran, Van-Anh; Truong, Hung; Tsoy, Nikita; Tuzcuoglu, Kerem; Ubfal, Diego; Villalobos, Laura; Walterskirchen, Julian; Wang, Joseph Taoyi; Wattal, Vasudha; Webb, Matthew D.; Weber, Bryan; Weisser, Reinhard; Weng, Wei-Chien; Westheide, Christian; White, Kimberly; Winter, Jacob; Wochner, Timo; Woerman, Matt; Wong, Jared; Woodard, Ritchie; Wroński, Marcin; Yazbeck, Myra; Yang, Gustav Chung; Yap, Luther; Yassin, Kareman; Ye, Hao; Yoon, Jin Young; Yurris, Chris; Zahra, Tahreen; Zaneva, Mirela; Zayat, Aline; Zhang, Jonathan; Zhao, Ziwei; Zhong Yaolang
  3. Peer Creativity and Academic Achievement By van Lent, Max

  1. By: Foster, Gigi; Frijters, Paul
    Abstract: In 2020 and 2021, the world witnessed policies that caused enormous net damage to most countries. We demonstrate the usefulness of the new WELLBY currency in gauging the costs and benefits of COVID policies and review the contributions of Australian economists to the scholarly and public debates about these policies. Our analysis documents the value of what was destroyed, the weak resistance mounted by the Australian economics profession during this period, and the role played by many Australian economists as apologists for what we view as Australia's most catastrophic peacetime economic policy failure. We close with ideas for working towards a better future.
    Keywords: Australia; Covid-19; economics profession; health policy; welfare; WELLBY; coronavirus
    JEL: N0
    Date: 2024–03–06
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:122384&r=sog
  2. By: Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai; Brailey, Thomas; Briggs, Ryan; de Gendre, Alexandra; Dupraz, Yannick; Fiala, Lenka; Gabani, Jacopo; Gauriot, Romain; Haddad, Joanne; Lima, Goncalo; Ankel-Peters, Jörg; Dreber, Anna; Campbell, Douglas; Kattan, Lamis; Marino Fages, Diego; Mierisch, Fabian; Sun, Pu; Wright, Taylor; Connolly, Marie; Hoces de la Guardia, Fernando; Johannesson, Magnus; Miguel, Edward; Vilhuber, Lars; Abarca, Alejandro; Acharya, Mahesh; Adjisse, Sossou Simplice; Akhtar, Ahwaz; Ramirez Lizardi, Eduardo Alberto; Albrecht, Sabina; Andersen, Synøve Nygaard; Andlib, Zubaria; Arrora, Falak; Ash, Thomas; Bacher, Etienne; Bachler, Sebastian; Bacon, Félix; Bagues, Manuel; Balogh, Timea; Batmanov, Alisher; Barschkett, Mara; Basdil, B. Kaan; Baxa, Jaromír; Becker, Sascha; Beeder, Monica; Beland, Louis-Philippe; Bello, Abdel Hamid; Markovits, Daniel Benenson; Benjamin, Grant; Bergeron, Thomas; Blimpo, Moussa P.; Binetti, Marco; Bonander, Carl; Bonneau, Joseph; Borbáth, Endre; Topstad Borgen, Nicolai; Topstad Borgen, Solveig; Borowsky, Jonathan; Brini, Elisa; Brown, Myriam; Brun, Martín; Bruns, Stephan; Buliskeria, Nino; Calef, Andrea; Cameron, Alistair; Campa, Pamela; Campos-Rodríguez, Santiago; Cantone, Giulio Giacomo; Carpena, Fenella; Carter, Perry; Castañeda Dower, Paul; Castek, Ondrej; Caviglia-Harris, Jill; Strand, Gabriella Chauca; Chen, Shi; Chzhen, Asya; Chung, Jong; Collins, Jason; Coppock, Alexander; Cordeau, Hugo; Couillard, Ben; Crechet, Jonathan; Crippa, Lorenzo; Cui, Jeanne; Czymara, Christian; Daarstad, Haley; Dao, Danh Chi; Dao, Dong; Schmandt, Marco David; de Linde, Astrid; De Melo, Lucas; Deer, Lachlan; De Vera, Micole; Dimitrova, Velichka; Dollbaum, Jan Fabian; Dollbaum, Jan Matti; Donnelly, Michael; Huynh, Luu Duc Toan; Dumbalska, Tsvetomira; Duncan, Jamie; Duong, Kiet Tuan; Duprey, Thibaut; Dworschak, Christoph; Ellingsrud, Sigmund; Elminejad, Ali; Eissa, Yasmine; Erhart, Andrea; Etingin-Frati, Giulian; Fatemi-Pour, Elaheh; Federice, Alexa; Feld, Jan; Fenig, Guidon; Firouzjaeiangalougah, Mojtaba; Fleisje, Erlend; Fortier-Chouinard, Alexandre; Engel, Julia Francesca; Fries, Tilman; Fortier, Reid; Fréchet, Nadjim; Galipeau, Thomas; Gallegos, Sebastián; Gangji, Areez; Gao, Xiaoying; Garnache, Cloé; Gáspár, Attila; Gavrilova, Evelina; Ghosh, Arijit; Gibney, Garreth; Gibson, Grant; Godager, Geir; Goff, Leonard; Gong, Da; González, Javier; Gretton, Jeremy; Griffa, Cristina; Grigoryeva, Idaliya; Grøtting, Maja; Guntermann, Eric; Guo, Jiaqi; Gugushvili, Alexi; Habibnia, Hooman; Häffner, Sonja; Hall, Jonathan D.; Hammar, Olle; Kordt, Amund Hanson; Hashimoto, Barry; Hartley, Jonathan S.; Hausladen, Carina I.; Havránek, Tomáš; Hazen, Jacob; He, Harry; Hepplewhite, Matthew; Herrera-Rodriguez, Mario; Heuer, Felix; Heyes, Anthony; Ho, Anson T. Y.; Holmes, Jonathan; Holzknecht, Armando; Hsu, Yu-Hsiang Dexter; Hu, Shiang-Hung; Huang, Yu-Shiuan; Huebener, Mathias; Huber, Christoph; Huynh, Kim P.; Irsova, Zuzana; Isler, Ozan; Jakobsson, Niklas; Frith, Michael James; Jananji, Raphaël; Jayalath, Tharaka A.; Jetter, Michael; John, Jenny; Forshaw, Rachel Joy; Juan, Felipe; Kadriu, Valon; Karim, Sunny; Kelly, Edmund; Dang, Duy Khanh Hoang; Khushboo, Tazia; Kim, Jin; Kjellsson, Gustav; Kjelsrud, Anders; Kotsadam, Andreas; Korpershoek, Jori; Krashinsky, Lewis; Kundu, Suranjana; Kustov, Alexander; Lalayev, Nurlan; Langlois, Audrée; Laufer, Jill; Lee-Whiting, Blake; Leibing, Andreas; Lenz, Gabriel; Levin, Joel; Li, Peng; Li, Tongzhe; Lin, Yuchen; Listo, Ariel; Liu, Dan; Lu, Xuewen; Lukmanova, Elvina; Luscombe, Alex; Lusher, Lester R.; Lyu, Ke; Ma, Hai; Mäder, Nicolas; Makate, Clifton; Malmberg, Alice; Maitra, Adit; Mandas, Marco; Marcus, Jan; Margaryan, Shushanik; Márk, Lili; Martignano, Andres; Marsh, Abigail; Masetto, Isabella; McCanny, Anthony; McManus, Emma; McWay, Ryan; Metson, Lennard; Kinge, Jonas Minet; Mishra, Sumit; Mohnen, Myra; Möller, Jakob; Montambeault, Rosalie; Montpetit, Sébastien; Morin, Louis-Philippe; Morris, Todd; Moser, Scott; Motoki, Fabio; Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Musulan, Andreea; Musumeci, Marco; Nabin, Munirul; Nchare, Karim; Neubauer, Florian; Nguyen, Quan M. P.; Nguyen, Tuan; Nguyen-Tien, Viet; Niazi, Ali; Nikolaishvili, Giorgi; Nordstrom, Ardyn; Nüß, Patrick; Odermatt, Angela; Olson, Matt; Øien, Henning; Ölkers, Tim; Oliver i Vert, Miquel; Oral, Emre; Oswald, Christian; Ousman, Ali; Özak, Ömer; Pandey, Shubham; Pavlov, Alexandre; Pelli, Martino; Penheiro, Romeo; Park, RyuGyung; Pérez Martel, Eva; Petrovičová, Tereza; Phan, Linh; Prettyman, Alexa; Procházka, Jakub; Putri, Aqila; Quandt, Julian; Qiu, Kangyu; Nguyen, Loan Quynh Thi; Rahman, Andaleeb; Rea, Carson H.; Reiremo, Adam; Renée, Laëtitia; Richardson, Joseph; Rivers, Nicholas; Rodrigues, Bruno; Roelofs, William; Roemer, Tobias; Rogeberg, Ole; Rose, Julian; Roskos-Ewoldsen, Andrew; Rosmer, Paul; Sabada, Barbara; Saberian, Soodeh; Salamanca, Nicolas; Sator, Georg; Sawyer, Antoine; Scates, Daniel; Schlüter, Elmar; Sells, Cameron; Sen, Sharmi; Sethi, Ritika; Shcherbiak, Anna; Sogaolu, Moyosore; Soosalu, Matt; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Sovani, Manali; Spencer, Noah; Staubli, Stefan; Stans, Renske; Stewart, Anya; Stips, Felix; Stockley, Kieran; Strobel, Stephenson; Struby, Ethan; Tang, John; Tanrisever, Idil; Yang, Thomas Tao; Tastan, Ipek; Tatić, Dejan; Tatlow, Benjamin; Seuyong, Féraud Tchuisseu; Thériault, Rémi; Thivierge, Vincent; Tian, Wenjie; Toma, Filip-Mihai; Totarelli, Maddalena; Tran, Van-Anh; Truong, Hung; Tsoy, Nikita; Tuzcuoglu, Kerem; Ubfal, Diego; Villalobos, Laura; Walterskirchen, Julian; Wang, Joseph Taoyi; Wattal, Vasudha; Webb, Matthew D.; Weber, Bryan; Weisser, Reinhard; Weng, Wei-Chien; Westheide, Christian; White, Kimberly; Winter, Jacob; Wochner, Timo; Woerman, Matt; Wong, Jared; Woodard, Ritchie; Wroński, Marcin; Yazbeck, Myra; Yang, Gustav Chung; Yap, Luther; Yassin, Kareman; Ye, Hao; Yoon, Jin Young; Yurris, Chris; Zahra, Tahreen; Zaneva, Mirela; Zayat, Aline; Zhang, Jonathan; Zhao, Ziwei; Zhong Yaolang
    Abstract: This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we uncover a high rate of fully computationally reproducible results (over 85%). Second, excluding minor issues like missing packages or broken pathways, we uncover coding errors for about 25% of studies, with some studies containing multiple errors. Third, we test the robustness of the results to 5, 511 re-analyses. We find a robustness reproducibility of about 70%. Robustness reproducibility rates are relatively higher for re-analyses that introduce new data and lower for re-analyses that change the sample or the definition of the dependent variable. Fourth, 52% of re-analysis effect size estimates are smaller than the original published estimates and the average statistical significance of a re-analysis is 77% of the original. Lastly, we rely on six teams of researchers working independently to answer eight additional research questions on the determinants of robustness reproducibility. Most teams find a negative relationship between replicators' experience and reproducibility, while finding no relationship between reproducibility and the provision of intermediate or even raw data combined with the necessary cleaning codes.
    Keywords: Reproduction, Replication, Research Transparency, Open Science, Economics, Political Science
    JEL: B41 C10 C81
    Date: 2024
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:107&r=sog
  3. By: van Lent, Max (Leiden University)
    Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between the creative abilities of study peers and academic achievement. We conduct a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first show that the creative abilities of peers matter for a student's academic achievement. A one standard deviation higher creativity peer group improves study performance by 8.4 to 10 percentage points. Notably, this effect is driven by the average group creativity, there is no special impact of creative superstars. Further analysis suggests that students exposed to creative peers become more creative, but do not adjust their overall study effort. This is in line with the idea that creative approaches and questions of peers help students to master the study material better. Overall, our study highlights the importance of peer effects of creative students in shaping academic outcomes.
    Keywords: peer effects, academic achievement, creativity, field experiment
    JEL: I21 I24 J24
    Date: 2024–03
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp16847&r=sog

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