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DUAN & REED: How Are Meta-Analyses Different Across Disciplines?

Posted on 18th May 2021 by replicationnetwork

INTRODUCTION Recently, one of us gave a workshop on how to conduct meta-analyses. The workshop was attended by participants from a number of different disciplines, including economics, finance, psychology, management, and health sciences. During the course of the workshop, it…

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Category: GUEST BLOGS Tags: Disciplines, Effect size, Estimation, Fixed Effects, Journals, Meta-analysis, Random Effects

What Do Replications Tell Us About the Reliability of Meta-Analyses? Evidence from Psychology

Posted on 2nd January 2020 by replicationnetwork

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[Excerpts taken from the article “Comparing meta-analyses and preregistered multiple-laboratory replication projects” by Amanda Kvarven, Eirik Strømland, and Magnus Johannesson, published in Nature Human Behaviour] “In the past 30 years, the number of meta-analyses published across scientific fields has been…

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Category: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Effect size, Meta-analyses, Multi-lab replications, Psychology, publication bias, replication

REED: EiR* – How to Measure the Importance of Variables in Regression Equations

Posted on 15th July 2019 by replicationnetwork

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[* EiR = Econometrics in Replications, a feature of TRN that highlights useful econometrics procedures for re-analysing existing research. The material for this blog is drawn from a recent working paper, “On the measurement of importance” by Olivier Sterck.] NOTE:…

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Category: GUEST BLOGS Tags: Ceteris Paribus Importance, Economic Growth, Economic importance, Effect size, Non-Ceteris Paribus Importance, Olivier Sterck, R-squared, Regression, Standardized Beta Coefficient

How to Measure the Importance of a Variable in a Regression Equation

Posted on 30th March 2019 by replicationnetwork

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[From the working paper “On the economic importance of the determinants of long-term growth” by Olivier Sterck, posted at the Centre for the Study of African Economies working papers website] “The long-run growth literature abounds with statements about the“economic signiﬁcance”…

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Category: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Economic Growth, Economic importance, Effect size, Regression equation