[ianai]

As an academic field, too, I found it to be quite toxic. You can get published in the best Econ journals by merely being the only person with the data. So of course it won’t be reproduced.

That said, it is understandably hard to run economic experiments. No one’s going to stand up a couple countries to then poke around with policy and see what happens. (Though maybe simulations will or have made this sort of thing possible.)