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...
