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.

"Reminds us to, occasionally, take a moment for self-reflection to question what we are doing as individual researchers or as a scientific community and whether we should overcome certain habits to get better at our job of explaining the world around us."

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsPART ONE. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION1 Introduction2 What Is Ethical Research?PART TWO. PROBLEMS3 Publication Bias4 Specification SearchingPART THREE. SOLUTIONS5 Using All Evidence: Registration and Meta-analysis6 Pre-analysis Plans7 Sensitivity Analysis and Other ApproachesPART FOUR. PRACTICES8 Reporting Standards9 Replication10 Data Sharing11 Reproducible Workflow12 ConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex

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.

"Reminds us to, occasionally, take a moment for self-reflection to question what we are doing as individual researchers or as a scientific community and whether we should overcome certain habits to get better at our job of explaining the world around us."

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsPART ONE. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION1 Introduction2 What Is Ethical Research?PART TWO. PROBLEMS3 Publication Bias4 Specification SearchingPART THREE. SOLUTIONS5 Using All Evidence: Registration and Meta-analysis6 Pre-analysis Plans7 Sensitivity Analysis and Other ApproachesPART FOUR. PRACTICES8 Reporting Standards9 Replication10 Data Sharing11 Reproducible Workflow12 ConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex