A recent stream of experimental economics literature studies the factors that contribute to the emergence of financial bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to...

This paper aims to evaluate the external validity of context on food choices by the existence of some mis-projection of future consumer decisions. Two studies are presented in a laboratory and in more realistic environments, such as a recreated experimental supermarket. A between-subject...

We study issues related to external validity for treatment effects using 166 replications of the Angrist and Evans (1998) natural experiment on the effects of sibling sex composition on fertility and labor supply. The replications are based on census data from around the world going back to...