We assess selection bias in estimated returns to workplace training by exploiting a field experiment with random …-experimental estimates that are estimated by using a sample of agents who were selected by management not to participate in the experiment …. When controlling for pre-treatment performance or individual fixed effects, only about one tenth of this bias remains and …

dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs …

In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial … constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors - cooperation, norm enforcement, and sharing - among low-income rice farmers … in-group or out-group partners at village level. We find that in-group bias in cooperation and norm enforcement exist …

the desire to send positive signals to others about one’s own skill; this suggests a either a bias in judgment, strategic … signaling ; field experiment ; IQ ; numeracy ; personality ; MPQ …

the internal and external validity of the results of a randomized experiment with balanced attrition rates, and proposes a … new method to correct for attrition bias. We rely on a 10-years longitudinal data set with a final attrition rate of 10 …

extent of p-hacking and publication bias by collecting and studying the universe of test statistics, 15,992 in total, from …

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 …

experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes …