Size Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review

By S. Ziliak, Donald N. McCloskey. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research (2018, neutral): “Follow-up reviews in 2004 and 2008 conclude that the situation had not meaningfully improved (Ziliak and McCloskey 2004; Ziliak and McCloskey 2008).”
The Implications of “Contamination” for Experimental Design in Education (2011, background): “However, much recent work has recognized that researchers make a serious mistake when they summarize the results of their work solely in terms of the results of significance tests (Schmidt & Hunter, 1997; Ziliak & McCloskey, 2004).”
Exploring the Economic Choice to Participate in Sport: Results from the 2002 General Household Survey (2007, background): “Ziliak (2005) and Ziliak and McCloskey (2004) have recently, and forcibly, stated the importance of looking at the economic significance of coefficients, rather than merely their statistical significance.”
Who Will Graduate? Disruption of High School Education by Arrest and Court Involvement (2006, result): “While the arrest coefficient dropped to marginal significance, its magnitude remained large, indicating that reduced statistical power accounted for the results rather than selection bias (Bushway, Sweeten, & Wilson, 2006; Ziliak & McCloskey, 2004).”
Subjective and Objective Well-Being in Relation to Economic Inputs: Puzzles and Responses (2005, methodology): “We require investigations in the politics, psychology and sociology of economic studies in this field, in the same way as for economists’ frequent misuse of statistical regression (McCloskey and Ziliak 1996; Ziliak and McCloskey 2004).”
Surrogate Science (2015, background): “In the following decade, this percentage increased to 82% (Ziliak & McCloskey, 2004).”
Does telecommuting reduce vehicle-miles traveled? An aggregate time series analysis for the U.S. (2005, background): “sample, insufficient variation in the sample, and/or multicollinearity) can have an impact that is still potentially substantial, even if imprecisely estimated (Ziliak and McCloskey, 2003).”
How does neighborhood design affect life satisfaction? Evidence from Twin Cities (2016, background): “On one hand, this highlights the importance of showing the ‘‘oomph’’ of the coefficients, not just their statistical significance (Ziliak and McCloskey, 2004).”
Meta-Regression Analysis as the Socio-Economics of Economic Research (2008, neutral): “…Cullowhee, NC 28723 Stanley@Hendrix.edu Chris.doucouliagos@deakin.edu.au Jarrell@email.wcu.edu I. Introduction Recently, the Journal of Socio-Economics devoted a Special Issue to the abuses of statistical significance in economics (Altman, 2004, Ziliak and McCloskey, 2004, Gigerenzer, 2004).”
Emoting with their feet: Bohemian attraction to creative milieu (2007, result): “On the other, our results cannot refute this association (Ziliak and McCloskey, 2004).”
Trust and growth: a shaky relationship (2008, neutral): “The rationale for this type of test, following McCloskey (1985), McCloskey and Ziliak (1996), Florax et al. (2002) and Ziliak and McCloskey (2004) , is that whereas the statistical significance of an estimated coefficient is used for establishing the existence of a relationship between two variable”