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Lab experiments of labour markets
I have been searching for papers that conduct lab experiments simulating a labour market, that means for a minimum there are both participants taking the role of firms, and participants taking the ...
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In experiments of 2-by-2 games where the dominant action benefits both players, do people frequently choose the other action?
Sayers et al look in Some descriptive aspects of two-person non-zero-sum games at variations of the prisoner dilemma. They had two participants (α and β) pressing press either a black (1) or a red (2) ...
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Are charitable donations on someone's behalf generally an effective incentive?
A study done in Sweden on 153 female, would-be blood donors showed
surprising results. The women were divided into three groups–
voluntary donation, paid donation, and paid donation with the
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Don't let me take the last bit
I believe everyone has experienced something like the following once in her or his life :
There is a cake on the table and three people to share it.
The three people each eat a quarter of the cake.
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Experiments on expectations formation
I was reading about the debate between rational expectations and adaptive expectations in some intermediate macro notes. One of the arguments given to discard the adaptive expectations hypothesis drew ...
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Which statstical method/model should I use with my study?
my dear fellows. I mainly do experimental research, so I run experiments in which participants play a game repeatedly (for 20 periods for example). The dataset I get after the experiments would be ...
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Multi-Stage Voting Game in zTree
For a project that I am doing, I need to code up a mulit-stage voting game in zTree. I have never used the program before but I am slowly teaching myself through watching videos and reading manuals. ...
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Are there any experiments about financial games with just one player?
I was wondering if there are any experiments of financial games (laboratory games under controlled circumstances like Plott and Sunder's Rational Expectations and the Aggregation of Diverse ...
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Difference between Quantile Regression and Endogenous Stratification
I have a question that stems from an ongoing experiment I'm conducting, focusing on treatment heterogeneity.
Initially, my approach involved considering a beyond-mean analysis utilizing quantile ...
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What experiment could I run in order to test the 'Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives' axiom?
I need some help in designing an economics experiment to test the IIA axiom. My understanding of it is if you rank A above B then if you introduce C or D, you must still always rank A above B in any ...
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Calculate power for multiple rounds of public goods experiment
I would like to calculate/simulate the a-priori necessary sample size for a repeated public goods experiment.
$N$ Participants play $R$ rounds of a public goods game (linear, voluntary contribution ...
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RCT power for optimal design
I have a question regarding Optimal Design software.
Particularly, let's suppose I have an intervention that assigns police patrols to different street segments, and that these segments are randomized ...
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How to empirically measure the underlying utility function for a 'max EU" SWF? Stated/revealed preferences over uncertain lotteries, or?
Direct answers, as well as pointers to the best literature and textbook treatments, as well as the names of key researchers, are appreciated.
Suppose we are considering policies and transfers that ...
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