A decade ago, the term “research transparency” was not on economists' radar screen, but in a few short years a scholarly movement has emerged to bring new open science practices, tools and norms into the mainstream of our discipline. The goal of this article is to lay out the evidence on the adoption of these approaches – in three specific areas: open data, pre-registration and pre-analysis plans, and journal policies – and, more tentatively, begin to assess their impacts on the quality and credibility of economics research. The evidence to date indicates that economics (and related quantitative social science fields) are in a period of rapid transition toward new transparency-enhancing norms. While solid data on the benefits of these practices in economics is still limited, in part due to their relatively recent adoption, there is growing reason to believe that critics' worst fears regarding onerous adoption costs have not been realized. Finally, the article presents a set of frontier questions and potential innovations.

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经济学研究透明度的证据

十年前，“研究透明度”这个词并没有出现在经济学家的视野中，但在短短几年内，一场学术运动已经出现，将新的开放科学实践、工具和规范带入我们学科的主流。本文的目的是列出采用这些方法的证据——在三个特定领域：开放数据、预注册和预分析计划以及期刊政策——并且更初步地，开始评估它们对经济学研究的质量和可信度。迄今为止的证据表明，经济学（和相关的定量社会科学领域）正处于向新的透明度增强规范快速过渡的时期。虽然关于这些实践在经济学中的好处的可靠数据仍然有限，部分原因是它们相对较新的采用，越来越多的理由相信，批评者对繁重的采用成本的最担心并未实现。最后，本文提出了一系列前沿问题和潜在创新。