Meta-Regression Analysis in Economics and Business

• Main Authors: Stanley, T.D., Doucouliagos, Hristos
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2012; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge advances in research methods
• Subjects: Business; Business literature; Business, Management and Accounting; Econometrics; Economics; Economics literature; Evaluation; Labour Economics; Marketing; Methodology; Political Economy; Political Research Methods; Regression analysis; Statistical methods; Minimum Wage Effects; Random Study Effects; Funnel Plot; Misspecification Biases; Cluster Robust Standard Errors; Stanley; MRA Model; Heterodox Economics; Publication Bias; Excess Heterogeneity; Funnel Asymmetry Test; Meta-regression Model; Doucouliagos; Funnel Graph; Study Level Effects; Heckman Regression; Dummy Variables; Average Income; Meta-Regression; Per-capita Gdp; Inverse Mills Ratio; Adverse Employment Effect; Regression Analysis; SUR; Kaitz Index; Metaregression Analysis; Publication Selection Bias; Publication Selection; MRA; Multiple MRA
• ISBN: 0415670780; 1138241148; 9781138241145; 9780415670784
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203111710

The purpose of this book is to introduce novice researchers to the tools of meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis and to summarize the state of the art for existing practitioners. Meta-regression analysis addresses the rising "Tower of Babel" that current economics and business research has become. Meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of previously published, or reported, research findings on a given hypothesis, empirical effect, phenomenon, or policy intervention. It is a systematic review of all the relevant scientific knowledge on a specific subject and is an essential part of the evidence-based practice movement in medicine, education and the social sciences. However, research in economics and business is often fundamentally different from what is found in the sciences and thereby requires different methods for its synthesis-meta-regression analysis. This book develops, summarizes, and applies these meta-analytic methods.