Does media bias affect voting? We address this question by looking at the entry of Fox News in cable markets and its … bias and about politician quality. The Fox News effect could be a temporary learning effect for rational voters, or a …

immigrant high school dropouts. One data source -- the CPS -- is plagued by non-response and allocation bias from the hot …-deck procedure that biases upward the estimated return to the GED. Correcting for allocation bias and ability bias, there is no …

Our overall conclusions are surprisingly consistent across sources and eras, that the CPI bias was roughly -1.0 percent … our view substantially narrows the range of possibilities regarding the history of CPI bias for rental shelter over the …

quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in … which firms slant their reports toward the prior beliefs of their customers in order to build a reputation for quality. Bias … emerges in our model even though it can make all market participants worse off. The model predicts that bias will be less …

This article summarizes our views on the role of an "aggregation bias" in explaining the PPP Puzzle, in response to the … counter-examples which are not empirically relevant; (ii) simulation results minimizing the extent of "aggregation bias"; (iii …) unfounded claims on the impact of measurement errors on our results; and (iv) problematic implementation of small-sample bias …

handle the potential for non-response bias and identify non-response using an affinity measure -- the potential respondent …-response. In the model describing earnings, estimated using the identified (for non-response bias) selectivity adjustments …

In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a …

aggregation bias'. This paper re-examines aggregation bias. First, it clarifies the meaning of aggregation bias and its … applicability to the PPP puzzle. Second, the size of the bias' is shown to be much smaller than the simulations in Imbs et. al …. Finally, it is now standard to recognize that small-sample bias plagues estimates of speeds of convergence of PPP. After …