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effect having an opposite sign from the true effect. We present an expression for the asymptotic bias of both OLS and IV … estimators and discuss the conditions under which sign reversal may occur. We provide a method for eliminating this bias when …
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, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias - people with extreme opinions are more … for reviewing has the potential to reduce this selection bias, because incentives can mitigate the motivational deficit of … voluntary reviews have a different distribution from incentivized reviews. The likely bias in the distribution of voluntary …
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This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport choices of boys and girls during high school. Using data...
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We study the objectivity of officiating under extreme pressure by analysing additional time played at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2024 UEFA European Championship. Controlling for within-match events, rules should be applied consistently across both halves of a football match. However, we argue...
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We study the determinants of biases in subjective performance evaluations in an MTurk experiment to test the implications of a standard formal framework of rational subjective evaluations. In the experiment, subjects in the role of workers work on a real effort task. Subjects in the role of...
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Many biases plague the estimation of rent sharing in labour markets. Using a Portuguese matched employer-employee panel, these biases are addressed in this paper in three complementary ways: 1) Controlling directly for the fact that firms that share more rents will, ceteris paribus, have lower...
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