2. Declare Research Claims

You will determine the scope of the reproduction by identifying research claims and related display items that you will analyse.

A research claim is a single major finding from a published study (for example, a journal article), as well as details of the methods and results that support this finding. A research claim is not equivalent to an entire article.

A display item is a figure or table that presents the results described in the paper. Each display item may contain several specifications, or estimates that result from variations in specific analytical choices.

Decide and provide a summary for the subset of claims that you will reproduce. You will also need to outline the display items associated with the researched claim.

Here is an example.

1. Sector-specific factors in TFP and labour growth historically explain three-fourths of low-frequency variations in US GDP growth.

Figure 5 - Aggregate trend growth rates in labor and TFP Figure 6 - Labor trends and sector-specific components Figure 7 - TFP trends and sector-specific components Figure 9 - Trend growth rate in GDP Figure 10 - Decomposition of the trend growth rate in GDP Figure 11 - Robustness to changes in statistical model

For a claim and its related figure, identify its default specification and record its magnitude (with units), standard error, and location in the paper (page, table #, and table row and column).