Economists have recently adopted pre-analysis plans in response to concerns about robustness and transparency in research. The increased use of registered pre-analysis plans has raised competing concerns that detailed plans are costly to create, overly restrictive, and limit the type of inspiration that stems from exploratory analysis. We consider these competing views of pre-analysis plans, and make a careful distinction between the roles of pre-analysis plans and registries, which provide a record of all planned research. We propose a flexible “packraft” pre-analysis plan approach that offers benefits for a wide variety of experimental and nonexperimental applications in applied economics.

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尤利西斯的契约或尤利西斯的木筏：在实验和非实验研究中使用预分析计划

经济学家最近采用了预分析计划，以应对对研究稳健性和透明度的担忧。越来越多地使用已注册的预分析计划引发了相互竞争的担忧，即详细计划的创建成本高昂、限制过多，并限制了探索性分析产生的灵感类型。我们考虑了预分析计划的这些相互竞争的观点，并仔细区分了预分析计划和登记处的作用，登记处提供了所有计划研究的记录。我们提出了一种灵活的“packraft”预分析计划方法，该方法为应用经济学中的各种实验和非实验应用提供了好处。