Does single-blind review encourage or discourage p-hacking?

Costanza Naguib

Diskussionsschriften from Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft

Abstract: In 2011, the American Economic Association (AEA) changed its peer review policy for all their journals, shifting from a double-blind process to a single-blind peer-review process. Under this new system, referees became aware of the authors’ identities. In this paper, I explore whether this policy change influenced the prevalence of p-hacking in published papers at The American Economic Review.

Keywords: p-hacking; single-blind review; double-blind review; difference-in-difference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A14 C13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-04
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