Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/328047 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 267
Publisher: 
Institute for Replication (I4R), s.l.
Abstract: 
Begum et al. (2018) study gender bias in parental attitudes using an experimental approach in rural Bangladesh. Households are reported as randomly assigned to treatment conditions in a lab-in-the-field allocation task. We show that the group assignment was inherited from Islam (2019), a previous non-randomized experiment conducted in the same region. The lack of randomization contradicts the design descriptions provided by the authors in Begum et al. (2018) and elsewhere, and raise concerns about the validity of comparisons across treatment groups. It also points to serious shortcomings in the reporting and transparency of the study design-issues that mirror those that led to the retraction of Islam (2019) from the European Economic Review.
Subjects: 
Replication
Reproduction
Parental bias
Gender
Bangladesh
JEL: 
B41
C12
C93
D13
J13
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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