Registered Report: Exploratory Analysis of Ownership Diversity and Innovation in the Annual Business Survey

Timothy Wojan

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: A lack of transparency in specification testing is a major contributor to the replicability crisis that has eroded the credibility of findings for informing policy. How diversity is associated with outcomes of interest is particularly susceptible to the production of nonreplicable findings given the very large number of alternative measures applied to several policy relevant attributes such as race, ethnicity, gender, or foreign-born status. The very large number of alternative measures substantially increases the probability of false discovery where nominally significant parameter estimates—selected through numerous though unreported specification tests—may not be representative of true associations in the population. The purpose of this registered report is to: 1) select a single measure of ownership diversity that satisfies explicit, requisite axioms; 2) split the Annual Business Survey (ABS) into an exploratory sample (35%) used in this analysis and a confirmatory sample (65%) that will be accessed only after the publication of this report; 3) regress self-reported new-to-market innovation on the diversity measure along with industry and firm-size controls; 4) pass through those variables meeting precision and magnitude criteria for hypothesis testing using the confirmatory sample; and 5) document the full set of hypotheses to be tested in the final analysis along with a discussion of the false discovery and family-wise error rate corrections to be applied. The discussion concludes with the added value of implementing split sample designs within the Federal Statistical Research Data Center system where access to data is strictly controlled.

Keywords: Split-sample; false discovery; self-reported innovation; women and minority owned business; hypothesis testing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 J15 J16 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2023-03
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