Michael Wiebe's Shortform

post by Michael Wiebe (Macaulay) · 2024-01-23T22:41:55.250Z · LW · GW · 3 comments

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comment by Michael Wiebe (Macaulay) · 2024-01-25T17:36:48.560Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Should you "trust literatures, not papers"?
I replicated the literature on meritocratic promotion in China, and found that the evidence is not robust.

https://twitter.com/michael_wiebe/status/1750572525439062384

comment by Michael Wiebe (Macaulay) · 2024-01-24T17:09:40.977Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Do vaccinated children have higher income as adults?
I replicate a paper on the 1963 measles vaccine, and find that it is unable to answer the question.

https://twitter.com/michael_wiebe/status/1750197740603367689

comment by Michael Wiebe (Macaulay) · 2024-01-23T22:41:55.446Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

New replication: I find that the results in Moretti (AER 2021) are caused by coding errors. The paper studies agglomeration effects for innovation (do bigger cities cause technological progress?), but the results supporting a causal interpretation don't hold up.

https://twitter.com/michael_wiebe/status/1749462957132759489