Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes  Introduction of Leaders in Education  Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley  Introduction of Emerging Researchers  Social Science – Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley  Economics - Ed Leamer, UCLA  Psychology – Bobbie Spellman, University of Virginia  Political Science – Kevin Esterling, UC Riverside

Leaders in Education Scott Long is the Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Statistics at Indiana University. Dr. Long helped authored a seminal text book titled Workflow of Data Analysis Using Stata, has led over 25 talks and workshops across the country and helped to institutionalize a required course on transparent methods at his home university.

Leaders in Education Philip Stark is Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Stark’s work has inspired an active ecosystem of transparency related efforts on the Berkeley campus including the development of an annual course on reproducible and collaborative research, the Berkeley Common Environment - an online platform for reproducible research - and the Reproducibility and Open Science Working Group at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.

Social Science Sean Grant is an Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Grant has worked to increase the transparency of behavioral and social science intervention research by developing CONSORT-SPI, a set of standards for transparently reporting randomized trials in the social sciences. As an associate editor for Research on Social Work Practice, Dr. Grant focuses on the transparency of intervention manuscripts sent to the journal.

Economics Eva Vivalt is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford and Assistant Professor at Australian National University. Dr. Vivalt founded AidGrade, a non-profit research institute that conducts open, real-time meta-analyses of program evaluations. Her contribution has helped to promote the conduct of living social sciences meta- analyses. She has also authored several articles examining external validity and selection bias.

Psychology Etienne LeBel is an Experimental Social Psychologist at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Lebel has been an enthusiastic advocate for replication and openness in psychology research. Dr. Lebel founded CurateScience, a web application that enables researchers to verify others’ scientific results, as well as PsychDisclosure.org, a platform for the comprehensive disclosure of a study’s design and authored publications on transparent methods.

Psychology Dora Erbe-Matzke is Assistant Professor of Psychological Methods and Statistics at the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Erbe-Matzke demonstrated great leadership as a co- developer of the Stats Store, a consulting service to help researchers increase the transparency of their work at her university. She also co-lectures and leads workshops on research transparency and publishes on study replications.

Political Science Allan Dafoe is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Dr. Dafoe has a portfolio of transparency efforts underway, including novel ways to visualize specification sensitivity tests, publications advocating transparency norms, and new efforts to create an online commons for post- publication dialogue.

Political Science David Broockman is Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Stanford University. Joshua Kalla is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Peter Aronow is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Biostatistics at Yale University. Dr. Broockman, Mr. Kalla, and Dr. Aronow were awarded a joint 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category for their leadership in a review of a study on attitudes on same sex marriage that uncovered inconsistencies and a lack of replicability that ultimately led to the study’s retraction by Science.

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