An essential part of empirical economics research is the identification of the size of an empirical effect. Partial correlations offer a convenient statistically based measure of the strength of an economic relationship. A key question arises in their interpretation: When is a partial...

Publication selection bias represents a serious challenge to the integrity of all empirical sciences. We develop meta-regression approximations that are shown to reduce this bias and outperform conventional meta-analytic methods. Our approach is derived from Taylor polynomial approximations to...