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Meta-regression analysis as the socio-economics of economics research

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posted on 2008-02-01, 00:00 authored by Tom StanleyTom Stanley, Chris DoucouliagosChris Doucouliagos, S Jarrell
Meta-regression analysis (MRA) provides an empirical framework through which to integrate disparate economics research results, filter out likely publication selection bias, and explain their wide variation using socio-economic and econometric explanatory variables. In dozens of applications, MRA has found excess variation among reported research findings, some of which is explained by socio-economic variables (e.g., researchers’ gender). MRA can empirically model and test socio-economic theories about economics research. Here, we make two strong claims: socio-economic MRAs, broadly conceived, explain much of the excess variation routinely found in empirical economics research; whereas, any other type of literature review (or summary) is biased.

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Journal

Journal of socio-economics

Volume

37

Issue

1

Pagination

276 - 292

Publisher

Elsevier B.V.

Location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

ISSN

1053-5357

eISSN

1879-1239

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2007, Elsevier Inc

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