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In a recent paper, Perez Brower (2024) argues that identity framing of policy agendas shapes women’s willingness to become more politically involved. She conducts two survey experiments to examine whether intersectional identity framing – messaging by advocacy organizations that links policy issues to individuals’ multiple identity characteristics – alters self-reported political engagement and disengagement. Our re-evaluation of Perez Brower’s (2024) data and analysis reveals an omitted control group, miscoding of one dependent variable, and the selective reporting of outcomes from analyses, including omissions of results which the author preregistered. Correcting these errors undermines, either partially or completely, all of the findings from Perez Brower (2024). Our investigation underscores the importance of preregistration, data replication, and public availability of replication materials and experimental documentation for reliable social science research.

Replication materials for our article can be found at the Harvard Dataverse.

The original version of our report can be found here.