Dear Altug:

One aspect of the issue is that the National Science Foundation in the United States now mandates that all "student" researchers on an NSF grant receive training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR).  This includes all postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students supported by NSF on a grant.  My university has decided the best way to implement this mandate is to require all first-year graduate students to go through the RCR training including economics students.  My guess is that every research university in the United States has some type of RCR program.  Of course this is a form of regulation which may or may not achieve its aim.  Also, there are significant economic and ethical dimensions at every point of the research process.  My university's program can be found at the following link:
http://unh.edu/research/responsible-conduct-research-scholarly-activity-committee

Jim



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Subject: [SHOE] Research ethics in economics

Dear list members,

I am setting up a new course on research ethics in economics. My intention is to teach undergraduate economics students on plagiarism, scientific misconduct, fraud, and other related issues in scientific research. I have been searching the Internet since last week, hoping to find similar syllabi on the subject. I have found many courses designed for students of biological sciences and media studies. However, Google Search tells me that there is only one economics course on this subject, which is in Princeton by Anne C. Case and Stephen E. Morris, entitled "Responsible Conduct of Research in Economics." I used other keywords, such as "scientific misconduct in economics research" and "ethical issues in economics"; the results did not change.

I thought I must be doing something wrong. I therefore would like to ask:  Does anybody know any course, graduate or undergraduate, on research ethics in economics?

Best wishes,

Altug Yalcintas, Ankara University