Chassang, Sylvain; Miquel, Gerard Padro I; Snowberg, Erik - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 4, pp. 1279-1309
We study the design of randomized controlled experiments when outcomes are significantly affected by experimental subjects' unobserved effort expenditure. While standard randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are internally consistent, the unobservability of effort compromises external validity. We...