Methodological Artefacts, Data Manipulation and Fraud in Economics and Social Science

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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik ; 231/5+6

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Frontmatter -- -- Inhalt / Contents -- -- Guest Editorial -- -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- -- The Production of Historical “Facts”: How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9,1989 Became a Convention -- -- “True Believers” or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant -- -- One-eyed Epidemiologie Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants -- -- Are Most Published Research Findings False? -- -- What Fuels Publication Bias? -- -- The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics -- -- Benford’s Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) -- -- When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud? -- -- Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford's Law on Regression Tables -- -- Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions -- -- Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account -- -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews -- -- Backmatter

In English

10.1515/9783110508420 [DOI]

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