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Published papers

For large-scale collaborations, my contribution and the total number of authors are clarified in brackets.

Ahimbisibwe, I., Dautheville, A., Fiala, L., Omala, S. K., & Sandholtz, W.A. (2026). The Leaky College Pipeline: Evidence from Administrative Data in Uganda. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 116, 206-211.
PDF | Replication package (coming soon)

Brodeur, A., et al. (2026). AI-Assisted Teams Outperform AI-Led Teams but Not Human-Only Teams in Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science. PNAS. 123(22), e2524747123.
[Major contribution, 272 authors]
PDF| Pre-print | Data and code

Brodeur, A., et al. (2026). Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research. Nature. 652, 151–156.
[Lead author team, 347 authors]
PDF | Data and code | Research briefing | In media | Blog at Springer Nature Research Communities

Aczel, B., et al. (2026). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature. 652, 135–142.
[Minor contribution, 493 authors]
PDF | Data and code | In media

Fiala, L., Fitzgerald, J., Kujansuu, E., Mikola, D., Valenta, D., Aparicio, J. P., Wiebe, M., Webb, M. D., & Brodeur, A. (2026). A Comment on Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh . Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics. Accepted.

Lippert, S., et al. (2024). Can Large Language Models Help Predict Results from a Complex Behavioural Science Study? Royal Society Open Science. 11(9), 240682.
[Minor contribution, 301 authors]
PDF | Data (part 1, part 2)

Schaerer, M., du Plessis, C., Nguyen, M. H. B., van Aert, R. C. M., Tiohkin, L., Lakens, D., [5 others plus 185-author consortium including Fiala, L.], Uhlmann, E. L. (2023). On the Trajectory of Discrimination: A Metaanalysis and Forecasting Survey Capturing 44 Years of Field Experiments on Gender and Hiring Decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Vol. 179. 104280.
[Minor contribution, 197 authors]
PDF | Pre-registration, data & code | Other documents

Huber, C., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Weitzel, U., [88 others including Fiala, L.], Holzmeister, F. (2023). Competition and Moral Behavior: A Meta-analysis of Forty-five Crowd-sourced Experimental Designs. PNAS. Vol. 120(23). 2215572120.
[Minor contribution, 96 authors]
PDF | Pre-analysis plan, data, code, pre-print

Fiala, L. & Husovec, M. (2022). Using Experimental Evidence to Improve Delegated Enforcement. International Review of Law & Economics. Vol. 71. 106079.
PDF | z-Tree code | Data & code | In media: Frontier Economics | Impact: (1) The EU Advocate General cited our paper as evidence of over-blocking in one of the pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the constitutionality of EU law (C-401/19) (2) Digital Services Act, Article 21, introduces an out-of-court dispute resolution mechanism as proposed by the paper

Fiala, L., Humphries, J. E., Joensen, J. S., Karna, U., List, J. A., & Veramendi, G. F. (2022). How Early Adolescent Skills and Preferences Shape Economics Education Choices. AEA Papers and Proceedings. Vol. 112. 609 613.
PDF | Online appendix | Data & code

Fiala, L. & Suetens, S. (2017). Transparency and Cooperation in Repeated Dilemma Games: a Meta Study. Experimental Economics. Vol. 20(4). 755771.
PDF | Data & code (also at Dataverse)

Fiala, L. & Noussair, C. (2017). Charitable Giving, Emotions, and the Default E ect. Economic Inquiry. Vol. 55(4). 17921812.
PDF | Data & code | Impact (explanation)

Working papers (Selected)

For large-scale collaborations, my contribution and the total number of authors are clarified in brackets.

Fiala L., et al. (2026). Reproducibility and Robustness of Nature Human Behaviour Papers in 2022-2024. Invited submission, Nature Human Behaviour. Job market paper.
[Lead author, approximately 330 authors]

Brodeur, A., et al. (2026). Mass Reproducibility in Psychological Science. Invited submission, Psychological Science.
[Major contribution, 220 authors]

Fitzgerald, J., Adema, J., Fiala, L., Kujansuu, E., & Valenta, D. (2026). Non-Robustness in Log-Like Specifications.
Pre-print

Ahimbisibwe, I., Dautheville, A., Fiala, L., Omala, S. K., & Sandholtz, W. A. (2026). Private and Social Returns to Public University Scholarships: Evidence from Uganda.

Fitzgerald, J., et al. (2026). Lessons on Reproducibility and Robustness in Administrative Data Analyses from an International Replication Initiative.
[Lead author team, 24 authors]

Brodeur, A., et al. (2026). Reproducibility and Robustness by Method and Subfield.
[Lead author team, 330 authors]

Heal, C., et al. Protocol for the development of a tool (INSPECT-IPD) to identify problematic randomised controlled trials when individual participant data are available.
[Minor contribution, 32 authors]
Pre-print

Heal, C., et al. (2026). Assessing the feasibility and interpretability of individual participant data checks for identifying problematic randomised controlled trials: Application to presumed authentic and LLM-generated datasets.
[Minor contribution, 46 authors]

Dasgupta, S., Fiala, L., & Mol, J. M. (2025). For the Greater Good: Please Choose A.
Pre-registration | Pre-print

Brodeur, A., Fiala, L., Fitzgerald, J., Kujansuu, E., Valenta, D., Rogeberg, O., & Bensch, G. A (2025). Comment on Improving Women’s Mental Health During a Pandemic.
Pre-print | Impact: Expression of concern on original article

Fiala, L., Mikola, D., & Brodeur, A. (2025). Comment on Building Education Resilience through Parenting Style and Out-of-school Learning: Field Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh by Hassan et al. (2025).
Impact: Expression of concern on original article

Fiala, L., Kjelsrud, A., Kujansuu, E, & Brodeur, A. (2025). Comment on Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country by Rahman et al.
Pre-print | Impact: Original article was retracted

Cuna, M., Fiala, L., Lee, M. S., List, J. A., & Roy, S. (2025). The Role of Risk and Ambiguity Preferences on Early-Childhood Investment: Evidence from Rural India.
Pre-print

Fiala, L. (2024). Statistical Role Models.
Pre-registration (pre-test, main experiment) | In media: Innovation Growth Lab blog

Fiala, L., Joensen, J. S., List, J. A., Pagnotta, F., & Uchida, H. (2024). Peers and the Evolution of Skills during Adolescence.

Fiala, L. (2021). Can You Fight Fake News with Reason?
In media: Die Welt, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2017 Press Talk (EN, DE, photo, info) - Photo credit to Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings | Award: Young Researcher ASFEE 2019 Prize for the best experimental poster (2019)

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