Talk

Understanding Publication Bias in Economics – and What to Do About It

World Bank, Washington, DC
April 21, 2026

Keynote Address: Measuring Development Conference (MeasureDev) 2026, World Bank

Edward Miguel presents new evidence on how widespread publication bias is in economics, and what can be done to shrink it. The talk centers on the Reporting Guidelines and Publication Bias (RGPB) project – a BITSS effort with Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, Gufran Pathan, Akash Shaji, Viviane Silva da Rocha, Erik Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden – which confronts the field’s core “denominator problem”: how many hypothesis tests researchers actually run, and how many quietly end up in the file drawer.

Conference website: https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2026/04/29/measuredev-conference-2026

Presentation Slides

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Evidence on Research Transparency in EconomicsPublished PaperResearch Methodology2021
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Improving Research Transparency in the Social Sciences: Registration, Pre-registration, and Multiple Testing AdjustmentsResearch Methodology2021
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Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research
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Transparency and Reproducibility in Economics ResearchBerkeley, CaliforniaApril 22, 2016
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AI, transparency, and trust: rethinking open science in development researchWorld Bank Blogs
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