Demographics and Entrepreneurship

James Liang, Hui Wang, Edward P. Lazear

Journal of Political Economy, 2018. DOI 10.1086/698750

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 2 replications and 1 reproduction of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 failed, 1 successful, 1 with no outcome recorded.

SCORE secondary data replication of Liang et al. (2018), Parsons et al. (2025). Outcome recorded: failed. "There were 44 coefficients on the interaction between r and age that were either insignificant (alpha = 0.05) or positive. This claim was not replicated."
Analysis, Tyner et al. (2025). Outcome recorded: successful. ""We find that the results are robust to the inclusion of the additional years of data. The relationship between the entrepreneurship level of a country and the median age of the citizens in the original study (data covering 2001 to 2010) was found to be -0.0074 (p-value 0.0000, CI: [-0.0101, -0.004

Liang JournPoliEco 2018 q8xv - Talbert - Reproduction (with author data & code), Miske et al. (2020). No outcome recorded. View paper