Issues in Meta-Regression Analysis: An Overview

Roberts, Colin J.

doi:10.1111/j.0950-0804.2005.00248.x

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“…10 It is worth noting here that publication bias is an important limitation of meta-regression analysis (Stanley, 2001;García-Quevedo, 2004;Roberts, 2005) as papers usually tend be published when significant relationships between the variables of interest are effectively found. In our context, several studies have not found statistically significant relationships for all the dependent variables of our metaregression analysis.…”

Section: Estimation and Resultsmentioning

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Factors Explaining Local Privatization: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Bel

Fageda

2006

SSRN Journal

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Privatization of local public services has been implemented worldwide in the last decades. Why local governments privatize has been the subject of much discussion, and many empirical works have been devoted to analyzing the factors that explain local privatization.Such works have found a great diversity of motivations, and the variation among reported empirical results is large. To investigate this diversity we undertake a meta-regression analysis of the factors explaining the decision to privatize local services. Overall, our results indicate that significant relationships are very dependent upon the characteristics of the studies. Indeed, fiscal stress and political considerations have been found to contribute to local privatization specially in the studies of US cases published in the eighties that consider a broad range of services.Studies that focus on one service capture more accurately the influence of scale economies on privatization. Finally, governments of small towns are more affected by fiscal stress, political considerations and economic efficiency, while ideology seems to play a major role for large cities.

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Section: Estimation and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Explaining Local Privatization: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Bel

Fageda

2006

SSRN Journal

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“…As in Ashenfelter et al (1999), Roberts (2005) and Stanley (2005), the observed universe of published results may have emerged solely because they were statistically significant. Studies may have remained unpublished because they failed to provide a statistically significant rejection of the null hypothesis of no effect.…”

Section: Publication/reporting Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We review the literature in order to assess whether the vast empirical entrepreneurship literature offers any consistent findings with respect to the impact of educational attainment on performance in and choice of entrepreneurship. We use MRA as a quantitative tool to synthesize previous research findings that share common aspects that can be addressed in a statistical sense (Roberts, 2005).…”

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Education and Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Sluis

Praag

Vijverberg³

2008

Journal of Economic Surveys

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This paper provides a review of empirical studies into the impact of formal schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in industrial countries. We describe the main effects found in the literature, we explain the variance in results across almost a hundred studies, and we put the empirical results in the context of related economic theory and the much further developed literature in labor economics (studying the rate of return to education among wage employees). Five main conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is insignificant. Second, the effect of education on performance is positive and significant. Third, the return to a marginal year of schooling is 6.1% for an entrepreneur. Fourth, the effect of education on earnings is smaller for entrepreneurs than for employees in Europe, but larger in the USA. Fifth, the returns to schooling in entrepreneurship are higher in the USA than in Europe, higher for females than for males, and lower for non-whites or immigrants. In conclusion, we offer a number of suggestions to move the research frontier in this area of inquiry. The entrepreneurship literature on education can benefit from the technical sophistication used to estimate the returns to schooling for employees.

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“…Meta-regression analysis (MRA) is one type of meta-analysis offering a means of objectively explaining why, and quantifying how, estimates from a range of empirical studies differ (Roberts 2005). MRA tends to objectify processes that produce empirical economic results as though they were any other social scientific phenomenon (Stanley 2005).…”

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Economics of Forest Ecosystem Carbon Sinks: A Review

Kooten

Sohngen

2007

IRERE

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Carbon terrestrial sinks are seen as a low-cost alternative to fuel switching and reduced fossil fuel use for lowering atmospheric CO 2 . In this study, we review issues related to the use of terrestrial forestry activities to create CO 2 offset credits. To gain a deeper understanding of the confusing empirical studies of forest projects to create carbon credits under Kyoto, we employ meta-regression analysis to analyze conditions under which forest activities generate CO 2 -emission reduction offsets at competitive "prices." In particular, we examine 68 studies of the costs of creating carbon offsets using forestry. Baseline estimates of costs of sequestering carbon are some US$3-$280 per tCO 2 , indicating that the costs of creating CO 2 -emission offset credits through forestry activities vary wildly. Intensive plantations in the tropics could potentially yield positive benefits to society, but in Europe similar projects could cost as much as $195/tCO 2 . Indeed, Europe is the highest cost region, with costs in the range of $50-$280 per tCO 2 . This might explain why Europe has generally opposed biological sinks as a substitute for emissions reductions, while countries rush to finance forestry sector clean development mechanism projects. In Canada and the U.S., carbon sequestration costs range from a low of about $2 to nearly $80 per tCO 2 . One conclusion is obvious: some forestry projects to sequester carbon are worthwhile undertaking, but certainly not all. * The authors wish to thank Tom Tietenberg, Henk Folmer, Peter Parks, Bengt Kriström, Zhou Wenchou, and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments and suggestions; Alison Eagle, Karen Crawford, Qian Chen, and Linda Voss for their research assistance; and BIOCAP/SSHRC and the SFM Network for funding support.

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Issues in Meta-Regression Analysis: An Overview

Cited by 54 publications

References 11 publications

Factors Explaining Local Privatization: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Factors Explaining Local Privatization: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Education and Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Economics of Forest Ecosystem Carbon Sinks: A Review

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