Some Consequences of Having Too Little

Anuj K. Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 2 replications of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 mixed, 1 failed.

An exercise in self-replication: Replicating Shah, Mullainathan, and Shafir (2012), Shah et al. (2019). Outcome recorded: mixed. First, with regard to the replication of Experiment 1, we find no evidence for the hypothesis that scarcity-induced focus leads to cognitive fatigue on subsequent tasks. Indeed, the results run opposite to our initial finding. View paper
Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015, Camerer et al. (2018). Outcome recorded: failed. Rep. s1+s2 = No: the pooled first-stage and replication-sample test fails to reach significance in the same direction as the original. View paper