Economic importance and statistical significance: Guidelines for communicating empirical research.
A critical objective for many empirical studies is a thorough evaluation of both substantive importance and statistical significance. Feminist economists have critiqued neoclassical economics studies for an excessive focus on statistical machinery at the expense of substantive issues. Drawing from t...
| Published in: | Feminist Economics Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 117 - 150 |
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Mar2008
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