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Bad News and Good News for Meta-Analyses in Economics

Posted on 25th August 2019 by replicationnetwork

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[Excerpts taken from the working paper “Practical Significance, Meta-Analysis and the Credibility of Economics” by Tom Stanley and Chris Doucouliagos, posted at SSRN] “…we find that large biases and high rates of false positives will often be found by conventional meta-analysis methods….

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Category: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Cluster robust standard errors, economics, Heterogeneity, Meta-analyses, PET-PEESE, Practical significance, publication bias, Random Effects, Selective reporting, WAAP, WLS

Do You Use Clustered Standard Errors? You Should Read This

Posted on 28th April 2019 by replicationnetwork

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[From the working paper, “How Cluster-Robust Inference Is Changing Applied Econometrics” by James MacKinnon, posted as a Queen’s University Working Paper] “Whenever the observations can plausibly be grouped into a set of clusters, it has become customary, indeed often mandatory,…

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Category: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: bootstrap, boottest, Cluster robust standard errors, Clusters, Hypothesis testing, Inference, James MacKinnon, Restricted wild cluster bootstrap, Stata