King's Business School and DAFM invite you to 'Can Meta-Analysis Explain the Replication Crisis, Motherhood-Wage Penalties and the Market’s (In)Efficiency?', presented by Tom Stanley (Deakin University)

About the speaker

Tom Stanley is Professor of Meta-Analysis at the School of Business, Deakin University, Melbourne Australia. Since the 1980s, his research has focused on the development and application of meta-regression methods and the mitigation of publication bias (i.e., the selective reporting of statistically significant results). Prof. Stanley taught a wide variety of economics and statistics courses at Hendrix College, a small liberal arts university, for over 30 years. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Surveys and Research Synthesis Methods. Tom is the convener of MAER-Net (Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network), a member of DeLMAR (Deakin Lab for the Meta-Analysis of Research), and an elected member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods.

Abstract

Selective reporting, specification searches, low statistical power, and great researcher flexibility are the causes of the current credibility/replication crisis in the social sciences. Meta-analysis can identify the reach of these problems in your specific area of research and filter out much of their effects. When carefully conducted, meta-analysis can greatly increase research credibility.

This seminar offers a brief introduction to meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis with applications to specific areas of research in economics and finance—the motherhood-wage penalty and market (in)efficiency in Asian and Australasian equity markets.