with laboratory data on students for the same experiment to investigate effects of implementation mode and of subject pool …We combine data from a risk preference elicitation experiment conducted on a representative sample via the Internet … selection. We find that the frequency of errors in the lab experiment is drastically below that of the representative sample in …

foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …

the external validity of standard experiments: Sampling from a narrowly defined population of students (experimenter …-induced selection) and self-selection of participants into the experiment. We find that both types of selection lead to a sample of …

We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same … cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption … and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate more than workers. Cooperation increases in both subject pools …

information? We address these questions using a survey experiment in Italy, which randomly exposes around 7,000 participants to (i …

reward investments in building up social capital by means of an economic experiment. We find substantial heterogeneity in the … the experiment. …