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It’s great to see negative results like this, that go against current popular research trends, published. It makes me realise how rare it is to see “we studied
by nojs 6y ago
It’s great to see negative results like this, that go against current popular research trends, published. It makes me realise how rare it is to see “we studied this thing and contrary to our predictions saw nothing interesting”. Presumably because of publication bias.
- belly_joe 6y agoTrue, but to be fair a null result is much more interesting (and thus publishable) when it cuts against a large body of prior empirical work or theory. Thinking specifically of Card and Krueger (1994) finding zero impact of the minimum wage on employment