Jack Fitzgerald
jackfitzgerald.bsky.social
Jack Fitzgerald
@jackfitzgerald.bsky.social
Economics PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute. Working on applied econometrics, replication, and economics of science. https://jack-fitzgerald.github.io. Likes/reposts aren’t endorsements, views are my own.
theoretical also having a real bad year in 2000
March 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
those poor y-axes
March 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The logo for the Journal of Marginally Significant Results naturally features a series of confidence intervals hanging out anxiously close to zero
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Do the tables get imaginary numbers?
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is wild to hear. For what it’s worth, in my publication at Journal of Business Ethics, the equivalence testing results were the thing the editors and reviewers liked *most* about the paper. I think equivalence testing is key for making null results more publishable!

doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Is There a Foreign Language Effect on Workplace Bribery Susceptibility? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Vignette Experiment - Journal of Business Ethics
Theory and evidence from the behavioral science literature suggest that the widespread and rising use of lingua francas in the workplace may impact the ethical decision-making of individuals who must ...
doi.org
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reposted by Jack Fitzgerald
#5 Here's another recent critique of close elections RDDs.

It's unclear whether there is actually good evidence against potentially fatal precise manipulation around the cutoff in these designs.
March 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Expat in NL here: you would also call it Den Bosch if you had to pronounce ‘s Hertogenbosch often enough
February 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Additional context: this was just in my paper. Different teams replicated different papers depending on which Games they attended and which software they used. The main results control for Games-software fixed effects to partial out reproducibility difficulty across different replication packages.
January 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM