Welcome to the first Leibniz Open Science Day 2024

Location: Landesvertretung Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin

Date: 25.11.2024

The Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences addresses the growing importance of the social sciences in tackling societal challenges. A central aspect is the meta-scientific perspective, which enables a better understanding of how evidence is generated and communicated to society and policymakers. In particular, replications and meta-studies are becoming increasingly important. They help to identify bias, improve methodological standards, and promote transparency. This ultimately increases the credibility of scientific findings.

The Leibniz Open Science Day provides a platform for exchanging and discussing these important topics and invites scientists from social sciences to actively participate.

The one-day workshop will take place on November 25 in Berlin and is organized jointly by three institutes of the Leibniz Association: ZBW, RWI, and WZB.

9.00 – 9.10
Welcome
Marianne Saam (ZBW – Leibniz-Information Centre for Economics)

9.10 – 9.40
Session 1 (plenary)

• Anna Popova (LMU Munich):
  Time to Untie Odysseus from the Mast? Evidence Review on Commitment Demand
• Julian Rose (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research):
  Settling Settler Mortality: An Expert Survey on the Replication Debate between Acemoglu et al. (2001) and Albouy (2012)
• Zacharias Maniadis (University of Cyprus):
  Fear of the Light? Transparency does not reduce the effectiveness of nudges. A data-driven review
• Prashant Garg (Imperial College London):
  Causal Claims

10.40 – 11.00
Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.00
Keynote by Harry Collins (Cardiff University):
The experimenter’s regress, expertise, and the replication crisis

12.00 – 12.50
Lunch Break

12.50 - 14.10
Session 2 (plenary)

• Viola Asri (CMI - Chr. Michelsen Institute):
  Pathways from Registration to Publication: Evidence from the AEA RCT Registry
• Franz Prante (University of Technology Chemnitz):
  Pre-registration of meta-analysis in economics - a guide and template
• Francesco Capozza (WZB - Berlin Social Science Center):
  Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter
• Jörn Redler (Mainz University of Applied Sciences) and Holger J. Schmidt (Koblenz University of Applied Sciences):
  Not very relevant and largely unknown outside academia: a diagnosis of the current state of marketing research and some ideas on how to get out of it

14.10 – 14.30
Coffee Break

14.30 – 16.30
Session 3-5 (parallel sessions)
Session 3 (plenary)

• Jack Frederick Fitzgerald (VU Amsterdam):
  The Need for Equivalence Testing in Economics
• Stephan B. Bruns (Hasselt University):
  Automated interpretation of statistical tables in economics shows that open science reduces questionable research practices and improves rigor
• Jan Marcus (Freie Universität Berlin):
  Replication Code Availability Over Time and Across Fields: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
• Guido Bünstorf (University of Kassel):
  Researcher Ranking and Reporting Bias: Evidence from Economics

Session 4 (Room Fehmarn)

• Sebastian Gechert (University of Technology Chemnitz):
  The Price Elasticity of Heating and Cooling Energy Demand: A meta-analysis
• Nils Haveresch (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research):
  A slippery slope: topographic variation as an instrumental variable
• Arthur Zito Guerriero (University of Duisburg-Essen):
  The normative side of climate economics – revisiting the literature on the social costs of carbon
• Sachintha Fernando (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg):
  The causal effect of Finland’s carbon tax: Replicated and revisited

Session 5 (Room Helgoland)

• Matteo M. Marini (University of Bologna):
  Cultural values and economic choices: Three meta-reanalyses of experimental evidence
• Florian Neubauer (RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research):
  Robustness and Reproducibility in Economics: A Structured Protocol to Standardized Reproductions
• Christoph Merkle (Aarhus University):
  Learning to be overprecise

16.30 – 16.45
Closing
Marianne Saam (ZBW – Leibniz-Information Centre for Economics)
Jörg Ankel-Peters (RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research)
Levent Neyse (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

17.00 – 18.30 (for registered participants only)

• Marianne Saam, ZBW and University of Hamburg
• Doreen Siegfried, ZBW
• Jörg Ankel-Peters, RWI
• Macartan Humphreys, WZB
• Levent Neyse, WZB