LEC 5 - FIELD EXPERIMENTS Flashcards

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what are field experiments

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Like laboratory experiments, field experiments use randomization, but do so in naturally-occurring settings, in certain cases using experienced subjects who might not be aware that they are participants in an experiment.’
– Levitt & List (2009, p. 2)

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what’s the critique of laboratory experiments

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Environment - ‘Sterile’ or ‘game-like’

Context - Commodities and stakes are often not realistic and often do not vary

Subject pool - Students not representative of whole population

Time - Cannot invoke intertemporal decision making/distinguish between short run and long run

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put the following on a continuum from controlled data to naturally occurring data:
 • LAB: Laboratory Experiment
• AFE: Artefactual Field Experiment
• FFE: Framed Field Experiment
• NFE: Natural Field Experiment
• NE: Natural Experiment
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what experiment would be best to test a theory and behaviour

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theory - lab experiment

behaviour - field experiment

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what's the common characteristics of the following:
• LAB: Laboratory Experiment
• AFE: Artefactual Field Experiment
• FFE: Framed Field Experiment
• NFE: Natural Field Experiment
• NE: Natural Experiment
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