A forthcoming paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), "A Cognitive View of Policing" (htm), reports results from a field experiment showing that teaching police officers to "consider different ways of interpreting situations they encounter" led to "reductions in use of force, [and] discretionary arrests" (abstract). In this post I explain why, having spent... The post [122] Arresting Flexibility: A QJE field experiment on police behavior with about 40 outcome variables appeared fir...| Data Colada
The authors of a forthcoming AER article (.pdf), "Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics", painstakingly harvested thousands of test results from 25 economics journals to answer an interesting question: Are studies that use some research designs more trustworthy than others? In this post I will explain why I think their... The post [91] p-hacking fast and slow: Evaluating a forthcoming AER paper deeming some econ literatures less trustworthy appeared fi...| Data Colada
by Csaba Szabo, Columbia University Press, 2025 This is a rollicking good read, written in an informal style, and enlivened by cartoons, wh...| deevybee.blogspot.com