Pre-results review and p-hacking

Costanza Naguib-Stettler

Diskussionsschriften from Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft

Abstract: In 2018, the Journal of Development Economics introduced a pre-results review track, allowing prospective empirical projects to be assessed before the realization and reporting of their results. This paper studies whether this change in the editorial process affected the prevalence of p-hacking and/or publication bias in articles published in the Journal of Development Economics relative to comparable journals in the same period.

Keywords: p-hacking; publication bias; pre-results review; difference-in-differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A14 C13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-04
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