We explore the relationship between personal characteristics and the decision to lie to an anonymous partner in a cheap talk environment. We find that sex, age, grade point average, student debt, size of return, socioeconomic status, and average time spent in religious observation are not...

Responsiveness to payoffs and differences in culture have been considered as reasons why women have a greater aversion to lying than men. By using smaller stakes in a sender–receiver game than Dreber and Johannesson, but similar culture, no gender difference was found.

Aversion to lying has been consistently observed in sender–receiver games. Women have demonstrated greater aversion to lying for a small monetary benefit in these games than men. We test the robustness of this gender difference in a sender–receiver game with larger stakes. We find no...

Over the past decade randomized field experiments have gained prominence in the toolkit of empirical economics and policy making. In an article titled "Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, the Present, and the Future," Levitt and List (2009) make three main claims about the history,...

En esta sección se definen los métodos experimentales usados en la economía, se examina los procedimientos seguidos para implementarlos y se ilustran sus ventajas y limitaciones.

Esta sección muestra algunos casos emblemáticos de economistas y científicos de otras ciencias sociales, cuyos trabajos son considerados como precursores de la economía experimental.

En esta sección se presentan ejemplos concretos de estimación de preferencias en un contexto experimental, y en distintas áreas de investigación, tales como: microeconomía, economía pública, finanzas, economía laboral y economía del desarrollo. Además se ilustra, en qué medida algunos...