在线进行互动实验

Conducting interactive experiments online

Experimental Economics · 2017
被引 346 · 同刊同年前 2%
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

比较了实验室和在线平台(如亚马逊土耳其机器人)进行互动实验的异同,通过重复公共品博弈实验发现,合作与惩罚的基本行为模式可在线复现,但参与者流失是主要挑战,且数据质量可靠。

Abstract

Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological discussion of the similarities and differences between interactive experiments conducted in the laboratory and online. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically complex. It therefore provides a good case study for discussing the methodological and practical challenges of online interactive experimentation. We find that basic behavioral patterns of cooperation and punishment in the laboratory are replicable online. The most important challenge of online interactive experiments is participant dropout. We discuss measures for reducing dropout and show that, for our case study, dropouts are exogenous to the experiment. We conclude that data quality for interactive experiments via the Internet is adequate and reliable, making online interactive experimentation a potentially valuable complement to laboratory studies.

在线交互实验公共品博弈惩罚机制参与者流失