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Star Wars : The Empirics Strike Back
Brodeur, Abel - 2013
Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...
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Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce P-Hacking and Publication Bias?
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Hartley, Jonathan; Heyes, … - 2022
extent of p-hacking and publication bias by collecting and studying the universe of test statistics, 15,992 in total, from …
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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias : Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
Krueger, Alan B. - 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 …
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Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias
Brodeur, Abel; Carrell, Scott; Figlio, David; Lusher, Lester - 2023
We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial … publication bias in peer review. Desk-rejected manuscripts display greater heaping than those sent for review i.e. marginally …
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Rotation Group Bias in Measures of Multiple Job Holding
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2016
group were 27.5 percent higher than official rates based on all rotation groups. Rotation group bias worsened over time and …
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
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What Do Field Experiments of Discrimination in Markets Tell Us? A Meta Analysis of Studies Conducted Since 2000
Rich, Judith - 2014
Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were recorded against ethnic groups, older workers, men...
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Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations : Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019
measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of …
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Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data
Decancq, Koen - 2014
We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...
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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence : 1995–2010
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...
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