This volume celebrates the innovative and rapidly growing area of economic research known as meta-regression analysis (MRA), which enables researchers to make sense of the disparate economic findings in an area of empirical research, using the same set of statistical tools found in that research.

1. Issues in Meta-Regression Analysis: An Overview: Colin J. Roberts. 2. Meta-Regression Analysis: A Quantitative Method of Literature Surveys: T. D. Stanley and Stephen B. Jarrell. 3. Beyond Publication Bias: T. D. Stanley. 4. A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade: Andrew K. Rose and T. D. Stanley. 5. Publication Bias in the Economic Freedom and Economic Growth Literature: Chris Doucouliagos. 6. A Meta-Analysis of b-Convergence: the Legendary 2%: Maria Abreu, Henri L. F. de Groot and Raymond J. G. M. Florax. 7. The Last Word on the Wage Curve?: Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot. 8. A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages: Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot. 9. A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap: Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer. 10. The Income Elasticity of Money Demand: A Meta-Analysis of Empirical Results: Markus Knell and Helmut Stix.