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Insights, commentary, and updates from the replication community.
The Future of ROI-Based Philanthropy in the Age of AI
ROI-based philanthropy is entering a new phase. For a long time, the basic playbook was simple enough to feel sturdy: find a study with a promising result, use the reported effect size to estimate social benefit, compare that benefit to cost.
March 25, 2026 · Juan Posada Aparicio
Conversations on the Future of Replication (1-day Workshop)
Replication research has grown rapidly in recent years, but the community working on these questions remains relatively dispersed across fields. On July 18th, I4R will host a one-day workshop in Barcelona.
March 17, 2026 · Abel Brodeur
Assessing Research Using Error Carry Forward
Error carry forward is a marking scheme for multistep, complex mathematics questions, where the dependency from previous steps makes binary schemes too coarse a measure for work quality.
March 10, 2026 · Derek Mikola
What will the paper of the future look like?
In the course of my research, I will occasionally indulge in a session of academic archaeology — tracing references backward through time to discover conceptual origins.
March 5, 2026 · Luna Fazio
Replication Games in secure environments: Replicating research with Dutch Administrative Data
Throughout the month of February 2026, 19 replicators are participating in a new edition of the Replication Games in the Netherlands, this time focused on reproducibility with restricted-access administrative data.
February 23, 2026 · Lenka Fiala, Jack Fitzgerald, Kasia Karpinska, Angelica Maineri
The Vanishing Role of Critique in the American Economic Review
Where Have All the Comments Gone? The figure below has been with us for several years now. It tracks how often the American Economic Review publishes formal comments.
February 23, 2026 · Florian Neubauer and Jorg Ankel-Peters
A Researcher's Guide to Replication Packages: Episode 3
Episode 3: The Return of the Code. Hooray, your paper has been accepted! As you assemble your replication package, you discover a discrepancy in Figure 2.
February 16, 2026 · Lenka Fiala
The AI Replication Engine: First Experiments and What's Next
In our first post, we introduced the AI Replication Engine: an autonomous system built at I4R to verify empirical research. Now we share concrete results from initial benchmarking.
February 11, 2026 · Bruno Barbarioli