Mary Childs

This is Chishia again.

The paper her team picked by Diego and Juan Pablo is about the price of eggs at big firms versus small firms, how much pricing control they have.

Shishia will keep plugging in all the data and checking the results.

Though so far, it looks like the paper is checking out.

The kind of things they might find in this phase.

You know, did the authors say that this data set represents something it doesn't?

Did they use an appropriate data set?

And did they use that data in a way that made sense?

Did they include or exclude certain specifications or factors in order to have a result that looked exciting?

And as the hours start to tick by, it becomes clear that most teams are not turning up major issues.

Until mid-afternoon, we check in with this one group looking at a paper about government policies.

This is Simon Prevost.

He's an econ master's student and a public sector researcher.

The paper found that when people trust in government, they comply with policies more readily.

So those policies cost the government less money.

And Simon and his teammates are now trying to unravel a mystery.

Because when they went to look at the raw data that underlies the paper's findings, it looked a little funny.

This is Scott Morier, another EconMaster student on the team.

There was a folder called raw for the raw data, but the files were all labeled clean.

So we were a bit confused how it was counterintuitive, right?