Experimental Economics Research: Is there an alternative to having huge research budgets?

The need to pay subjects to participate in experiments places a major financial burden on experimental economists. In this paper, we conduct dictator games and find that there is no difference in the way student subjects split money and extra-credit points, an encouraging result that suggests that giving course points could be a viable alternative to giving out cash in economic experiments.

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Year of publication:	2007-01-20
Authors:	Moore, Amy ; Taylor, Michael
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 3.2007, 4, p. 1-6
Publisher:	AccessEcon
Subject:	dictator games

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C9 - Design of Experiments
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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