Projects

Ongoing and completed research projects from the I4R community.

I4R's the CRAVE files: An Investigation into Football Psychology

What began as an attempt to reproduce a single PNAS study on elite footballers grew into a multi-journal investigation uncovering duplicated observations, recovered deleted data, and inconsistencies across studies.

November 11, 2026 · Institute for Replication

ReplicationOngoing

I4R x R2E-Defor: Robustness and Replicability in the Deforestation Literature

An expertise-enhanced meta-replication

October 8, 2026 · Institute for Replication

ReplicationOngoing

I4R: The Power of Policy Evaluation

This projects examines how reliable the evidence behind policy decisions really is, using carbon pricing as a case study

October 8, 2026 · Institute for Replication

ReplicationOngoing

I4R x R2E-Dev: Reproducibility and Robustness in Development Economics

A large-scale meta-replication of empirical research in development economics: 66 studies from the AER, AEJ: Applied and JDE, each reproduced and stress-tested by an independent replication fellow.

October 7, 2026 · Institute for Replication

ReplicationOngoing

R2E-Dev: Reproducibility and Robustness in Development Economics

A large-scale meta-replication of empirical research in development economics: 66 studies from the AER, AEJ: Applied and JDE, each reproduced and stress-tested by an independent replication fellow.

October 7, 2026 · Institute for Replication

ReplicationOngoing

I4R x CBS Replication Games

The CBS Replication Games address a blind spot in current research culture, how can research be independently verified when the underlying data cannot be openly shared? A first of its kind initiative giving independent teams secure access to CBS administrative microdata

September 14, 2026 · Institute for Replication

ReplicationOngoing

I4R x Early Childhood Interventions: A Global Reproducibility Initiative

June 16, 2026 · Institute for Replication

ReplicationOngoing

I4R × Tropical Disease Research: A Global Reproducibility Initiative

Systematically reproducing causal and interventional tropical disease studies published since 2015 in leading economics, public health, and general-interest journals—putting the evidence base for global health under the microscope.

June 15, 2026 · Institute for Replication

ReplicationCompleted

I4R’s First Meta-Research Paper, Published in Nature

Reproductions and replications of 110 papers from leading economics and political science journals—the most comprehensive examination of reproducibility in the social sciences to date.

January 15, 2026 · Institute for Replication