Methodological Artefacts, Data Manipulation and Fraud in Economics and Social Science

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Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- The Production of Historical Facts: How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9,1989 Became a Convention -- True Believers or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant -- One-eyed Epidemiologie Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants -- Are Most Published Research Findings False? -- What Fuels Publication Bias? -- The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics -- Benford's Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) -- When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud? -- Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford's Law on Regression Tables -- Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions -- Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews -- Backmatter

Auteur
Dr. Andreas Diekmann ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Bern, Schweiz.

Contenu
Guest Editorial Abhandlungen / Original Papers Opp, Karl-Dieter, The Production of Historical "Facts": How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9, 1989 Became a Convention Krämer, Walter, Gerhard Arminger, True Believers or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant Greiser, Eberhard, One-eyed Epidemiologic Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants. A Reply to Walter Krämer and Gerhard Arminger's Paper 'True believers or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant' Diekmann, Andreas, Are Most Published Research Findings False? Auspurg, Katrin, Thomas Hinz, What Fuels Publication Bias? Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of Risk Factors Using the Caliper Test Weiß, Bernd, Michael Wagner, The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics Schräpler, Jörg-Peter, Benford's Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Shikano, Susumu, Verena Mack, When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud? Facts or Misleading Test Results Bauer, Johannes, Jochen Gross, Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford's Law on Regression Tables Coutts, Elisabeth, Ben Jann, Ivar Krumpal, Anatol-Fiete Näher, Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions Franzen, Axel, Dominikus Vogl, Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews Aoyama, H., Y. Fujiwara, Y. Ikeda, H. Iyetomi, W. Souma, Econophysics and Companies. Statistical Life and Death in Complex Business Networks Postler, Andreas, Nachhaltige Finanzierung der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung Ramser, Hans J., Manfred Stadler (Hrsg.), Marktmacht Bandinhalt des 231. Jahrgangs der Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik Contents of Volume 231 of the Journal of Economics and Statistics