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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online
Arechar, Antonio - 2017
. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … interactive experimentation. We find that basic behavioral patterns of cooperation and punishment in the laboratory are replicable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963854
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'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes : Subjective Versus Revealed Preferences
Akay, Alpaslan - 2017
Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, preference heterogeneity can be inferred from the observation of individual choices (revealed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948689
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Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation
Xiao, Erte - 2006
punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … interests, we find that privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation relative to a baseline treatment without punishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780905
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Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany : Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)
Wagner, Gert G. - 2017
This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like the state of the European Union, long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963850
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Knowing What Works - The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation
Schmidt, Christoph M. - Universität <Heidelberg> / … - 1999
This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well-respected scientific standards and why it should be performed by independent researchers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840377
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Experts in Experiments : How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin - 2011
An ever increasing number of experiments attempts to elicit risk preferences of a population of interest with the aim of calibrating parameters used in economic models. We are concerned with two types of selection effects, which may affect the external validity of standard experiments: Sampling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128213
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Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences
Cleave, Blair Llewellyn - 2011
Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory. However, it is unknown whether the preferences of volunteer participants are representative of the population from which the participants are drawn or whether they differ due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129933
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin - 2011
Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130435
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Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour : Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment
Drago, Francesco - 2011
We exploit the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006 to evaluate the indirect effects of a policy that randomly commutes actual sentences to expected sentences for 40 percent of the Italian prison population. We estimate the direct and indirect impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131919
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Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences Among Adult Laboratory Subjects, But Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults
Anderson, Jon C. - 2010
We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134817