Methodological Artefacts, Data Manipulation and Fraud in Economics and Social Science (eBook)

Themenheft 5+6/Bd. 231(2011) Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik

Andreas Diekmann (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2016
208 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-050842-0 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- The Production of Historical “Facts”: How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9,1989 Became a Convention -- “True Believers” or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant -- One-eyed Epidemiologie Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants -- Are Most Published Research Findings False? -- What Fuels Publication Bias? -- The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics -- Benford’s Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) -- When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud? -- Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford's Law on Regression Tables -- Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions -- Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews -- Backmatter

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2016
• Verlagsort: Berlin/München/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Data validity • Data validity,Econometric analysis,Empirical Social Science,Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik • Econometric Analysis • Empirical Social Science • Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
• ISBN-10: 3-11-050842-7 / 3110508427
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-050842-0 / 9783110508420