illustrates the tight link between parameter identification and the scope for bias that is generated by the autocoherence …

in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and genetic ability bias, and the education … findings suggest lower ability bias in within-twin pair regressions than pooled regressions. Third, using data on twins smoking … we show smoking reflects family background and using it as an instrument exacerbates ability bias. …

distribution of VAR impulse response estimators is undermined by the estimator’s bias. A natural conjecture is that impulse … estimators tend to have both higher bias and higher variance, resulting in pointwise impulse response confidence intervals that …

choices are private information. It is optimal for the organization to `bias' the second contest in favor of the early winner …

experiments and survey-based data. In the experiment subjects are shown a network, in which their location is exogenously assigned … these biases. The experiments yield three further findings: (iii) network cognition is affected by the subject's location …, (iv) the accuracy of network cognition varies with the nature of the network, and (v) limitations in network cognition …