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Experimental economists increasingly apply econometric techniques to interpret their data, as suggests the emergence of "experimetrics" in the 2000s. Yet statistics remains a minor topic in historical and methodological writings on experimental economics (EE). This article aims to address this...
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definition and measurement of the theoretical concept of utility, thereby bridging the gap between theory and statistical data. I … sought behavioral foundations for economic theory that enabled quantitative reasoning. By using thought experiments to … observing utility via actual experiments without eliminating the concept of utility from economic theory altogether. As such …
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Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 to the present day. We find that anti-experimental...
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We propose a historical perspective on replication in experimental economics focused on public good games. Our intended contribution is twofold: in terms of method and in terms of object. Methodologically, we blend traditional qualitative history of economics with a less traditional quantitative...
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