Promises and Perils of Pre-Analysis Plans

Imagine a nefarious researcher in economics who is only interested in finding a statistically significant result of an experiment. The researcher has 100 different variables he could examine, and the truth is that the experiment has no impact. By construction, the researcher should find an average o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olken, Benjamin A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association (AEA) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104069
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631