About the Authors

Justin McCrary

‡ This author is the primary author of this work.

Affiliations School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Garret Christensen

garret@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Daniele Fanelli

Affiliation Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM. Performed the experiments: JM. Analyzed the data: GC DF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM GC DF. Wrote the paper: JM GC DF.