Full Description
This Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible guide to experimental methodology and practice. Leading researchers present their expertise, detailing common experimental techniques and providing guidance on how to overcome the many obstacles that experimentalists encounter.
Collating scholarship from across the social sciences but with a particular focus on economics, the Handbook presents a constructive and critical view on experimentation. Chapters include broad guides on how to approach experimentation as well as more targeted guides on how to conduct experiments tailored for commonly studied behaviors including risk taking or discrimination. Chapters also detail the necessary procedures for special or unusual populations and settings, including experiments involving children or experiments involving social media. Ultimately, this Handbook presents easy-to-follow guidance for conducting high-quality and replicable research.
Essential for both the first-time experimenter who needs a guide and the seasoned researcher who needs a reference, this Handbook is a must-read resource for students and scholars of social science aiming to learn about the world through experiments.
Contents
Contents
Introduction: a view on experimentalism in the social sciences xi
Alex Rees-Jones
PART I OVERVIEWS
1 Experiments: why, how, and a user's guide for producers as well as consumers 2
Muriel Niederle
2 How to run a field experiment 80
Anya Samek and Sally Sadoff
PART II MEASUREMENT AND ELICITATION
3 Complexity and its measurement 104
Ryan Oprea
4 Eliciting beliefs 162
Guy Ishai
5 Eliciting time preferences 210
Michael A. Kuhn
6 Measuring confidence 250
Sophia Li and Don A. Moore
7 Measuring discrimination with experiments 265
Ashley Litwin and Corinne Low
8 Measuring (dis)honesty 317
Marta Serra-Garcia
9 Measuring self-reported well-being 338
Ori Heffetz and Yehonatan Caspi
10 Measuring social preferences 379
Michalis Drouvelis
PART III SPECIAL TOPICS
11 Measuring the physiological choice process 401
Ian Krajbich, Dino Levy and Ryan Webb
12 Conducting experiments with young populations: children are not little adults 449
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13 Conducting "real effort" experiments 468
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14 Doing experimental economics in developing countries 489
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15 Experimenter demand effects 502
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16 Experiments in political science 530
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17 Experiments on social media 546
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18 How to do replicable research 578
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19 Investigating risk preferences using experiments 589
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