asymmetries consistent with the most likely priors of the researchers, giving a publication bias. …

significant and theory-confirming estimates for publication. Meta-regression models were originally developed for the synthesis of … statistically significant and theory-confirming estimates. Each regression specification may possibly suffer from biases such as … authors of primary studies search for statistically significant and theory-confirming estimates, meta-regression models tend …

bias is important, but only for those study results obtained through differencein- differences or instrumental variables …

bias is important, but only for those study results obtained through difference-in-differences or instrumental variables …

the potential threats of data-mining and publication bias. We propose extended meta-regression models and evaluate their … presence of publication bias, but data-mining bias leads to seriously inflated type I errors and has to be addressed explicitly. …