Abel Brodeur

Research Fellow

University of Ottawa

abrodeur@uottawa.ca

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Abel Brodeur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Ottawa and the chair of the Institute for Replication. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Paris School of Economics and visited the London School of Economics as a participant of the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics.

Brodeur's current research interests center around applied economics and research transparency. He has worked on different topics including development, health and labor economics.

His Ph.D. advisors were Professors Andrew E. Clark (PSE) and Jörn-Steffen Pischke (LSE).

Abel Brodeur joined IZA as a research affiliate in August 2012. He is now a research fellow.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16912

Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope

Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16369

Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias

Abel Brodeur, Scott E. Carrell, David N. Figlio, Lester Lusher

published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2974-3002

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15586

P-Hacking, Data Type and Data-Sharing Policy

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Carina Neisser

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (659), 985-1018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15478

We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us about Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15476

Do Pre-registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce P-Hacking and Publication Bias?

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Jonathan S. Hartley, Anthony Heyes

forthcoming as 'Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias? Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14894

A Golden Opportunity: The Gold Rush, Entrepreneurship and Culture

Michael Stuetzer, Abel Brodeur, Martin Obschonka, David Audretsch, Peter J. Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14410

World War II, the Baby Boom and Employment: County Level Evidence

Abel Brodeur, Lamis Kattan

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 437-471

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14034

Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States

Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur, Sean Nossek, Eran Shor

published in: Research and Politics, 2021, 8 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13862

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur, Stephen Weymouth

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (2), 739-767

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13411

A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19

Abel Brodeur, David M. Gray, Anik Islam, Suraiya Jabeen Bhuiyan

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35(4), 1007-1044

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13332

COVID-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power

Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Joanne Haddad, Derek Mikola

published as 'Determinants of Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Lessons from the COVID-19 Outbreak' in: Canadian Public Policy, 2021, 47 (3), 439-459

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13282

COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data

Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Taylor Wright

published as 'The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response' in: PLOS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0270341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13255

On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Taylor Wright

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 3 (102427)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13254

The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Occupation Tasks and Mental Health in Canada

Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Taylor Wright

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (51), 214-247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13234

Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust

Abel Brodeur, Idaliya Grigoryeva, Lamis Kattan

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (4), 1321-1354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13204

COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends

Abel Brodeur, Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104346

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13159

The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response

Louis-Philippe Béland, Abel Brodeur, Taylor Wright

published in: PLOS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0270341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13137

Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur

published in: American Politics Research, 2021, 49 (2), 215-220

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13105

Ancestral Norms, Legal Origins, and Female Empowerment

Abel Brodeur, Marie Christelle Mabeu, Roland Pongou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12728

The Economics of Mass Shootings

Abel Brodeur, Hasin Yousaf

published online as 'On the Economic Consequences of Mass Shootings' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12635

Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval

Abel Brodeur, Taylor Wright

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 119-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12493

Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings

Cristina Blanco-Perez, Abel Brodeur

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (623), 1226-1247

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11957

Institutions, Attitudes and LGBT: Evidence from the Gold Rush

Abel Brodeur, Joanne Haddad

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 92-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11796

Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Causal Inference in Economics

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Anthony Heyes

published as 'Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (11), 3634-3660

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10686

War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry

Abel Brodeur, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Yanos Zylberberg

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1540-1576

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9986

Has Uber Made It Easier to Get a Ride in the Rain?

Abel Brodeur, Kerry Nield

published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Taxi, Lyft and Uber Rides: Evidence from Weather Shocks in NYC' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 152, 1-16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9526

Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Abel Brodeur

published as 'The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 246-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7357

Smoking, Income and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Smoking Bans

Abel Brodeur

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7268

Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back

Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier, Yanos Zylberberg

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7256

Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Abel Brodeur, Sarah Flèche

published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6804