WHAT'S TO KNOW ABOUT LABORATORY EXPERIMENTATION IN ECONOMICS?
简要讨论了实验经济学中两个可能受益于元分析的方法论问题:实验参与者的来源(大学生与其他人群)以及货币激励的规模(大额、小额或假设性)。
Abstract Experimental economics has grown as a discipline from near non-existence 50 years ago to a full-fledged field within economics in the present. Much of experimental economics research involves experimental methods as a tool, applied to problems in other fields of economics. However, some of this research is inward looking, focusing on questions of the methodology of experimental economics. In this note, I briefly discuss two methodological issues in experimental economics that might benefit from meta-analysis: the pool from which experimental participants are drawn (university undergraduate students versus other populations) and the scale of monetary incentives faced by participants (large, small or hypothetical).