RSSE: Levent Neyse (WZB and DIW Berlin) Replicability and Crowd-Science in Economics

It is our pleasure that Levent Neyse (WZB and DIW Berlin) will present on Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 12:45 in room RB436 about the topic “Replicability and Crowd-Science in Economics”.

Registration is not required and anyone who would like to attend is warmly invited.

It is also possible to participate online via MS Teams at this link. In case of any connection issues, please contact lubomir.cingl@vse.cz.

ABSTRACT: Economics, like other empirical sciences, faces persistent concerns about the robustness and generalizability of its findings. This presentation discusses how coordinated replication, multi-site experimentation, and crowd-science methodologies can generate systematic evidence on the robustness of research findings. Drawing on ongoing large-scale projects, including work in Lab², it is shown how variations in populations, research designs, and analytical choices contribute to heterogeneity in outcomes and how collaborative approaches help disentangle these sources of variation.

BIO: Levent Neyse is a behavioral economist whose research explores how individuals make economic and social decisions, using surveys and experiments to study preferences, beliefs, and decision-making processes. He also works on meta-scientific topics such as replicability and research transparency. Levent leads the SOEP Innovation Sample at DIW Berlin and co-directs the Lab² metascience lab at WZB Berlin. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, an affiliated researcher at IZA, and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.