Skatteforsk – Centre for Tax Research invites you to the NMBU research ethics forum with the theme "When published research turns out to be wrong". It takes place on the 12th of December from 10:15-12:00 in room U120.
Note that keeping with the “academic quarter” you may turn up from 10:00 and get a cup of coffee before we begin. The forum is an informal place to learn more about research ethics and a safe space to share experiences and dilemmas that one encounters as a researcher. You find information about upcoming and past meetings and themes here. The forum is open for all, and directed toward NMBU researchers at all career stages. Meetings are in English. It will not be possible to attend this meeting digitally.
Topic description:
When published research turns out to be wrong
How should authors and journals react when their published research is proven wrong? Simen Markussen and Knut Røed (Frisch Centre and NMBU Centre for Tax Research) share their experience with one of the most prestigious journals in Economics. In 2015, the Journal of Political Economy published a paper providing convincing evidence that the introduction of paid parental leave in Norway in 1977 had a large positive impact on the offspring’s education and earnings 30 years later. In 2021, the American Economic Journal published a paper showing large effects on the health of mothers. However, in a recent comment published by the Journal of Political Economy, Markussen, Røed and colleagues show that the evidence was built on a misunderstanding of the reform’s content and that the estimated effects relied on a treatment-control difference that simply did not exist. How then, could apparently large and statistically significant effects be found? And how did the research community deal with the knowledge that influential research published in top journals was incorrect?
Links to:
The comment in JPE and appendix
Simen Markussen and Knut Røed are researchers at the Frisch Centre and affiliated to Skatteforsk, NMBU.
This forum is the place to learn more about research ethics and to share experiences and dilemmas that one encounters as researcher. Bring your Phd-candidate, your Postdoc, your colleague or your supervisor with you to the forum!
Rani Lill Anjum is the organizer of the NMBU Research forum and will be the moderator of this event. Send her tips on themes you would like to be included in the program to rani.anjum@nmbu.no.