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Star Wars : the empirics strike back
Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; … - 2013
testing ; distorting incentives ; selection bias ; research in economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721391
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The evolution of rotation group bias : will the real unemployment rate please stand up?
Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre; Niu, Xiaotong - 2014
This paper documents that rotation group bias - the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month … groups; both should be nationally representative samples. The rise in rotation group bias is driven by a growing tendency for … bias. We find that rotation group bias increased discretely after the 1994 CPS redesign and that rising nonresponse is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410263
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Methods matter : p-hacking and causal inference in economics
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Heyes, Anthony - 2018
The economics 'credibility revolution' has promoted the identification of causal relationships using difference-in-differences (DID), instrumental variables (IV), randomized control trials (RCT) and regression discontinuity design (RDD) methods. The extent to which a reader should trust claims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906306
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Do pre-registration and pre-analysis plans reduce p-hacking and publication bias?
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Hartley, Jonathan S.; … - 2022
extent of p-hacking and publication bias by collecting and studying the universe of test statistics, 15,992 in total, from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343284
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Replication in labor economics : evidence from data, and what it suggests
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2016
Examining the most heavily-cited publications in labor economics from the early 1990s, I show that few of over 3000 articles citing them directly replicates them. They are replicated more frequently using data from other time periods and economies, so that the validity of their central ideas has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594530
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International comparisons of work disability
Banks, James; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002005406
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Recall bias revisited: measure farm labor using mixed-mode surveys and multiple imputation
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Carletto, Calogero - 2022
capacity constraints resulting in significant recall bias. We offer the first study that employs a less-costly, imputation … other contexts, including for other types of variables that suffer from similar recall bias, these results could open up a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804482
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P-hacking, data type and data-sharing policy
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Neisser, Carina - 2022
In this paper, we examine the relationship between p-hacking and data-sharing policies for published articles. We collect 38,876 test statistics from 1,106 articles published in leading economic journals between 2002-2020. While a data-sharing policy increases the provision of research data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383178
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Can we test for bias in scientific peer-review?
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor) - 2008
Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the … data from the field of economics. No scientific bias or favoritism is found (although the Journal of Political Economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003752848
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Unemployment and health : a meta-analysis
Picchio, Matteo; Ubaldi, Michele - 2022
bias is important, but only for those study results obtained through difference-in-differences or instrumental variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286559