The credibility revolution in economics has promoted causal identification using randomized
control trials (RCT), difference-in-differences (DID), instrumental variables (IV) and …

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 …

The voluminous empirical research on the effect of financial development on income
inequality has yielded mixed results. In this paper, we collect 2127 estimates reported in 116 …

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 …

In water-stressed regions, droughts pose a critical challenge to urban water security for low-
income households. Droughts reduce water availability, forcing water providers to invest in …

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 …

A key theoretical prediction in financial economics is that under risk neutrality and rational
expectations a currency's forward rates should form unbiased predictors of future spot rates …

One of the most frequently examined relationships in education economics is the correlation
between tuition fee increases and the demand for higher education. We provide a …