Brodeur, Abel; Carrell, Scott E.; Figlio, David N.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial … publication bias in peer review. Desk-rejected manuscripts display greater heaping than those sent for review i.e. marginally … track rejected papers and present evidence that the prevalence of publication biases is perhaps not as prominent as feared …