Meta-Regression Analysis in Economics and Business: 5 (Routledge Advances in Research Methods) - Hardcover

Stanley, T.D.; Doucouliagos, Hristos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415670780 ISBN 13: 9780415670784

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to introduce novice researchers to the tools of meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis and to summarize the state of the art for existing practitioners. Meta-regression analysis addresses the rising "Tower of Babel" that current economics and business research has become. Meta-analysis is the statistical analysis of previously published, or reported, research findings on a given hypothesis, empirical effect, phenomenon, or policy intervention. It is a systematic review of all the relevant scientific knowledge on a specific subject and is an essential part of the evidence-based practice movement in medicine, education and the social sciences. However, research in economics and business is often fundamentally different from what is found in the sciences and thereby requires different methods for its synthesis―meta-regression analysis. This book develops, summarizes, and applies these meta-analytic methods.

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About the Author

T.D. Stanley is Bill and Connie Bowen Odyssey Professor of Economics at Hendrix College, Conway, AR, USA.

Hristos Doucouliagos is Professor in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415670780
• ISBN 13: 9780415670784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196