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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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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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Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of female authors and to the quality of articles that get published. Our results show that female...
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The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...
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economists in 19 countries, we examine the effect of ideological bias on views among economists. Participants were asked to …, research area, and undergraduate major, with patterns consistent with the existence of ideological bias …
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We study the impact of media bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure … significant reaction in respect to the neutral condition, suggesting that participants perceive the media negativity bias in the …
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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 …
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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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share of immigrants in the workforce and earnings imputation rates have risen over time, imputation match bias for recent …
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How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...
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