Publication Selection Bias in Minimum-Wage Research? A Meta-Regression Analysis

@article{Doucouliagos2008PublicationSB,
  title={Publication Selection Bias in Minimum-Wage Research? A Meta-Regression Analysis},
  author={Hristos Doucouliagos and T. D. Stanley},
  journal={ERN: Analytical Models (Topic)},
  year={2008}
}
Card and Krueger’s (1995a) meta-analysis of the employment effects of minimum wages challenged existing theory. Unfortunately, their meta-analysis confused publication selection with the absence of a genuine empirical effect. We apply recently developed meta-analysis methods to 64 US minimum wage studies and corroborate that Card and Krueger’s findings were nevertheless correct. The minimum wage effects literature is contaminated by publication selection bias, which we estimate to be slightly… 
View on SSRN
deakin.edu.au
426 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
43
Background Citations
134
Methods Citations
71
Results Citations
25

426 Citations

Does the UK Minimum Wage Reduce Employment? A Meta‐Regression Analysis
The employment effect from raising the minimum wage has long been studied but remains in dispute. Our meta-analysis of 236 estimated minimum wage elasticities and 710 partial correlation coefficients…
Is there publication selection bias in minimum wage research during the five-year period from 2010 to 2014?
The impact of minimum wages on employment has always been a field of conflicts among economists and this divergence of views has usually taken the form of competing studies. Doucouliagos and Stanley…
The employment effect of minimum wage using 77 international studies since 1992: A meta-analysis
Until the early 90’s a strong consensus existed among economists that minimum wage has negative employment effects. However, in 1992, the studies by Card (1992a) and Katz and Krueger (1992), who…
Wage Effects of On-the-Job Training: A Meta-Analysis
A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6…
Is There a Male Marriage Wage Premium ? A Meta-Regression Analysis
There is a substantial research literature that discusses and documents a wage premium for married men. Our meta-analysis of 50 studies and 403 estimates identifies omittedvariable bias as the most…
Meta-Analysis and Publication Bias in the Hedonic Wage Literature
The value of statistical life (VSL) is one of the most scrutinized and controversial parameters estimated by environmental economists (Cameron 2009, Viscusi 2010), largely due to the wide use of VSL…
The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Employment
This report includes the findings from a meta-analysis of the empirical UK national minimum wage literature. Similar to a previous UK minimum wage study by de Linde Leonard et al. (2014), this study…
Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment in Developing Countries? A Survey and Exploration of Conflicting Evidence
Abstract Evidence from studies of the employment effects of minimum wages in developing countries is mixed. One interpretation is that there is simply no clear evidence of disemployment effects in…
The Men’s Marriage Premium in the United States: What Remains after Controlling for Publication Bias and Heterogeneity?
Married men earn more than single men, which is a significant finding in labour and family economics. A considerable amount of research literature discusses this estimated wage effect for married men…
Identification of and Correction for Publication Bias
TLDR
Two approaches for identifying the conditional probability of publication as a function of a study’s results are proposed, the first based on systematic replication studies and the second based on meta-studies.
...
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 50 REFERENCES
Identifying and Correcting Publication Selection Bias in the Efficiency-Wage Literature: Heckman Meta-Regression
Publication selection bias represents one of the most serious challenges to the integrity of empirical economics. We develop Heckman regression methods to solve this potentially persistent problem…
Is the Time-Series Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects Contaminated by Publication Bias?
Publication bias in economics may lead to selective specification searches that result in overreporting in the published literature of results consistent with economists' priors. In reassessing the…
Beyond Publication Bias
This review considers several meta-regression and graphical methods that can differentiate genuine empirical effect from publication bias. Publication selection exists when editors, reviewers, or…
A Reassessment of the New Economics of the Minimum Wage Literature with Monthly Data from the Current Population Survey
We estimate the employment effects of federal minimum wage increases using monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 1979 through 1997. We find that the empirical differences in the new…
Time-Series Minimum-Wage Studies: A Meta-analysis
Time-Series Minimum-Wage Studies: A Meta-analysis Author(s): David Card and Alan B. Krueger Reviewed work(s): Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the…
Efficiency Wages, Productivity and Simultaneity: A Meta-Regression Analysis
This study reports a meta-analysis of 75 estimates of the efficiency-wage effect. It reveals a strong efficiency-wage effect that depends upon whether researchers control for potential simultaneity…
Meta-Regression Methods for Detecting and Estimating Empirical Effects in the Presence of Publication Selection
TLDR
This study investigates the small‐sample performance of meta‐regression methods for detecting and estimating genuine empirical effects in research literatures tainted by publication selection and finds them to be robust against publication selection.
Minimum Wage Legislation, Productivity and Employment
The effects of minimum wage legislation are analysed with the assumptions that firms are able to alter the working conditions of their employees, and that workers have different preferences about the…
The Elusive Effects of Minimum Wages
The main theme of David Card and Alan Krueger's book, "Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage", is that the data do not support the view that minimum wages reduce employment. The…
Meta-regression analysis: issues of publication bias in economics
1. Issues in Meta-Regression Analysis: An Overview: Colin J. Roberts. 2. Meta-Regression Analysis: A Quantitative Method of Literature Surveys: T. D. Stanley and Stephen B. Jarrell. 3. Beyond…
...
...