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P-hacking in clinical trials: a meta-analytical approach

Belas, Norman; Bengart, Paul; Vogt, Bodo - 2017

Clinical trials play a decisive role in the drug approval processes. By completing a p-curve analysis of a newly compiled data set that consists of thousands of clinical trials, we substantiate that the occurrence of p-hacking in clinical trials is not merely hypothetical. Medical and...

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How puzzling is the forward premium puzzle? : a meta-analysis

Zigraiova, Diana; Havránek, Tomáš; Novák, Jiri - 2020

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A new perspective on classical choice problems using selection functions

Hedges, Jules; Oliva, Paulo; Winschel, Evguenia; … - 2014

We use quantifiers and selection functions to generalize the classical economic approach to choice. Our framework encompasses preference and utility based approaches as special cases, but also extends to non-maximizing behavior and context-dependent motives such as social concerns. We adapt the...

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Contact interventions : a meta-analysis

Clochard, Gwen-Jiro - 2022

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Delaney, Liam; Denny, Kevin; Zhang, Wen; Rawdon, Caroline; … - 2008

The way people make decisions about future benefits - termed discounting - has important implications for both … neural areas mediating time-dependent discounting processes differ according to the nature of the task. The present study … investigates the potential neurological mechanisms underpinning domain-specific discounting processes. We present high …

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Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

How the income of "relevant others" affects well-being has received renewed interest in the recent literature using subjective data. Migrants constitutes a particularly interesting group to study this question: as they changed environment, they are likely to be concerned by several potential...

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"Luxury beliefs" : signaling through ideology?

Samahita, Margaret - 2024

The concept of "luxury beliefs" has gained increasing attention in recent months. It captures the idea that, as status goods become more affordable, ideology has emerged as a new way to signal status. I use a signaling game to derive a prediction related to the concept: given some beliefs are...

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Can social pressure stifle free speech?

Morales, Juan S.; Samahita, Margaret - 2023

decreased self-censorship. We use our theoretical model, and empirical estimates from the experiment about the value of …

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Context dependent games as quantifiers and selection functions

Hedges, Jules; Oliva, Paulo; Winschel, Evguenia; … - 2014

We use quantifiers and selection functions to represent simultaneous move games. Quantifiers and selection functions are examples of higher-order functions. A higher order function is a function whose domain is itself a set of functions. Thus, quantifiers and selection func- tions allow players...

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Covid-19 and climate change : a tale of two global problems

Fuentes, Rolando; Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; … - 2020

In this paper, we examine the similarities and the differences between two global problems, the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change, and the extent to which the experience with the Covid19 pandemic can be of use for tackling climate change. We show that both problems share the same...

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