Garret Christensen is an Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau and was formerly a Research Scientist at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences. His research focuses on the impacts of social safety-net programs. Jeremy Freese is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, and Co-Principal Investigator of the General Social Survey and Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences. His research focuses on topics that connect social inequality, health, and social change. Edward Miguel is Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Effective Global Action. His research focus is on African economic development.

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Acknowledgments

PART ONE. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION

1 Introduction
2 What Is Ethical Research?

PART TWO. PROBLEMS

3 Publication Bias
4 Specification Searching

PART THREE. SOLUTIONS

5 Using All Evidence: Registration and Meta-analysis
6 Pre-analysis Plans
7 Sensitivity Analysis and Other Approaches

PART FOUR. PRACTICES

8 Reporting Standards
9 Replication
10 Data Sharing
11 Reproducible Workflow

12 Conclusion

Appendix
Bibliography
Index