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Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences

Cleave, Blair L.; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory. However, it is unknown whether the preferences of volunteer participants are representative of the population from which the participants are drawn or whether they differ due to...

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Chapter 10. Lab in the Field : Measuring Preferences in the Wild

Gneezy, U.; Imas, A. - 2017

begin by examining how the methodology has been used to test economic models with populations of theoretical interest. Next … covariates to test theoretical predictions and explore behavioral mechanisms. We proceed to discuss how the methodology can be … utilized to compare behavior across cultures and contexts, and test for the external validity of results obtained in the lab …

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Is there selection bias in laboratory experiments? : the case of social and risk preferences

Cleave, Blair L.; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Slonim, Robert - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 16 (2013) 3, pp. 372-382

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Self-selection and variations in the laboratory measurement of other-regarding preferences across subject pools : evidence from one college student and two adult samples

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2012 - Revised version of 2010-22

We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The use of typical...

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Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE) for estimating economic preference parameters

Chapman, Jonathan; Snowberg, Erik; Wang, Stephanie; … - 2024

We introduce DOSE - Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation - to elicit preference parameters. DOSE starts with a model of preferences and a prior over the parameters of that model, then dynamically chooses a customized question sequence for each participant according to an...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018 - This version: February 13, 2018

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018 - This version: February 13, 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800548

Economic preferences across generations and family clusters : a large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020 - This version: July 2, 2020

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...

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