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We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
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This paper uses the control function to develop a framework for testing for selection bias. The idea behind our … magnitude of potential selection bias. Averaging this correction term with respect to appropriate weights yields the degree of … selection bias for alternative treatment effects of interest. One advantage of our framework is that it motivates when is …
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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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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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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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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 …
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School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...
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The Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives assumption inherent in multinomial logit models is most frequently tested with a Hausman-McFadden test. As is confirmed by many findings in the literature, this test sometimes produces negative outcomes, in contradiction of its asymptotic χ²...
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Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) this paper investigates the effect of working during grade 12 on attainment. We exploit the longitudinal nature of the NELS by employing, for the first time in the related literature, a semiparametric...
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We propose a specification test for a wide range of parametric models for the conditional distribution function of an outcome variable given a vector of covariates. The test is based on the Cramer-von Mises distance between an unrestricted estimate of the joint distribution function of the data,...
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