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 …

While the effect of higher public debt levels on economic growth has received much
attention, the literature partly points to contradictory results. This paper applies meta …

Despite extensive econometric evidence, the research literature has been unable to draw
firm conclusions regarding the effect of inflation on income inequality. In this paper, we apply …

We examine whether estimates of hedge fund performance reported in prior empirical
research are affected by publication bias. Using a sample of 1019 intercept terms from …

Meta-analysis upweights studies reporting lower standard errors and hence more precision.
But in empirical practice, notably in observational research, precision is not given to the …

We identify a shock that explains the bulk of fluctuations in equity risk premia, and show that
the shock also explains a large fraction of the business-cycle comovements of output …

We estimate the robustness reproducibility of key results from 17 non-experimental AER
papers published in 2013 (8 papers) and 2022/23 (9 papers). We find that many of the …

We construct a three‐level constant elasticity of substitution production model. Labour is split
into three components:(i) low‐skilled labour,(ii) high‐skilled labour with a traditional …

This paper performs a meta‐analysis and a meta‐regression analysis on the price semi‐
elasticity of wine quality ratings in the context of estimating hedonic price functions. To do so …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment
duration. Statistically significant findings are eleven times more likely to be published …