Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312911 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 04-2025
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
Doctoral dissertations provide evidence about research practices in early-stage research. We examine reporting bias by manually collecting over 94,000 test statistics from a random sample of German dissertations and their follow-up papers worldwide. We observe selective reporting, as only a fraction of the tests in the dissertations is reported in follow-up papers. Unexpectedly, we find no increase in reporting bias in follow-up papers compared to dissertations nor, generally, reporting bias in dissertations or papers. Self-selection into higher-impact journals based on statistical significance may reconcile our finding of selective yet "unbiased" reporting with prior evidence suggesting pervasive reporting bias.
Subjects: 
research transparency
reporting bias
higher education
young researchers
JEL: 
A14
A23
C12
I23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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