Monetary Incentives: Usually Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient?

Read (2005), in The Journal of Economic Methodology, took our target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Hertwig & Ortmann 2001) as one point of departure to question the usefulness of monetary incentives for experimental work. In making his case, he misrepresents our analysis, and continues the unfortunate ritual of opportunistic sampling of evidence. As in our target article, we call for an empirical analysis of the impact of monetary incentives.

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Year of publication:	2006-09
Authors:	Ortmann, Andreas ; Hertwig, Ralph
Institutions:	Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and Economics Institute (CERGE-EI)
Subject:	Experimental practices \| monetary incentives \| financial incentives \| rhetorical cactics

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CERGE-EI Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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