In a one-step binary lying experiment, subjects privately observe a random device that indicates a low payoff with probability p or a high payoff with probability 1-p. Subjects are paid whatever they report, inducing some subjects to lie in order to receive the high payoff. Currently...

What was once broadly viewed as an impossibility – learning from experimental data in economics – has now become commonplace. Governmental bodies, think tanks, and corporations around the world employ teams of experimental researchers to answer their most pressing questions. For their part,...

Policymakers are increasingly turning to insights gained from the experimental method as a means of informing public policies. Whether—and to what extent—insights from a research study scale to the level of the broader public is, in many situations, based on blind faith. This scale-up...

In a one-step trinary lying experiment, subjects privately observe a random device that indicates a low payoff, an intermediate payoff or a high payoff. Subjects are paid whatever they report, inducing some subjects to lie in order to receive a higher payoff. This paper presents a methodology...

Field experiments conducted with the village, city, state, region, or even country as the unit of randomization are becoming commonplace in the social sciences. While convenient, subsequent data analysis may be complicated by the constraint on the number of clusters in treatment and control....

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...

In the published proceedings of the first Journal of Accounting Research Conference, Vatter [1966] lamented that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and difficult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the fiftieth JAR Conference, we introduce a...

In the published proceedings of the first Journal of Accounting Research Conference, Vatter [1966] lamented that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and difficult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the fiftieth JAR Conference, we introduce a...

Antisocial behaviour experiments, both conducted in the laboratory or in the field, have become commonplace in the experimental economics literature. Such experiment found its relevance in the real world as people are not always selfish or nice to others, but they also sometimes behave...

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...