Meta‐analysis has become the conventional approach to synthesizing the results of
empirical economics research. To further improve the transparency and replicability of the …

This article provides concise, nontechnical, step‐by‐step guidelines on how to conduct a
modern meta‐analysis, especially in social sciences. We treat publication bias, p‐hacking …

Expatriate workers' remittances represent an important source of financing for low-and
middle-income countries. No consensus, however, has yet emerged regarding the effect of …

An important question in development studies is how natural resources richness affects long-
term economic growth. No consensus answer, however, has yet emerged, with …

When jobs offered by different employers are not perfect substitutes, employers gain wage-
setting power; the extent of this power can be captured by the elasticity of labor supply to the …

We show that the large elasticity of substitution between capital and labor estimated in the
literature on average, 0.9, can be explained by three issues: publication bias, use of cross …

A key parameter in international economics is the elasticity of substitution between domestic
and foreign goods, also called the Armington elasticity. Yet estimates vary widely. We collect …

We examine 597 estimates of habit formation reported in 81 published studies. The mean
reported strength of habit formation equals 0.4, but the estimates vary widely both within and …

We undertake a meta‐analysis of the effects of international investment agreements for the
protection of foreign investors on foreign direct investment using 2107 estimates drawn from …

We show that three factors combine to explain the mean magnitude of excess sensitivity
reported in studies estimating the consumption response to income changes: the use of …