Whose money is it anyway? Using prepaid incentives in experimental economics to create a natural environment
指出实验经济学中当场发放报酬会让参与者觉得钱不是自己的，从而影响决策，为此设计了预付机制让参与者把钱当作自己的来使用。
Abstract Simulating a real world environment is of utmost importance for achieving accurate and meaningful results in experimental economics. Offering monetary incentives is a common method of creating this environment. In general, experimenters provide the rewards at the time of experiment. In this paper, we argue that receiving the reward at the time of the experiment may lead participants to make decisions as if the money they are using were not their own. To solve this problem, we devised a “prepaid mechanism” that encourages participants to use the money as if it were their own.