Field experiments in economics /

Field experiments in economics / edited by Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Glenn W. Harrison, John A. List. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2005. - 1 online resource (vii, 372 pages) : illustrations. - Research in experimental economics ; v. 10 . - Research in experimental economics ; v. 10. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Field experiments in economics : an introduction / Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Glenn W. Harrison, John A. List -- Field experiments and control / Glenn W. Harrison -- Field experiments in economics : some methodological caveats / Andreas Ortmann -- Three themes on field experiments and economic development / Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jeffrey P. Carpenter -- Eliciting risk and time preferences using field experiments : some methodological issues / Glenn W. Harrison, Morten Igel Lau, E. Elisabet Rutstrèom, Melonie B. Sullivan -- Saving decisions of the working poor : short- and long-term horizons / Catherine Eckel, Cathleen Johnson, Claude Montmarquette -- Comparing students to workers : the effects of social framing on behavior in distribution games / Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Stephen Burks, Eric Verhoogen -- The effects of educational vouchers on confidence : a field experiment to assess outcomes of educational policy / Robert Slonim, Eric Bettinger -- Bargaining behavior, demographics and nationality : what can the experimental evidence show? / Anabela Botelho, Glenn W. Harrison, Marc A. Hirsch, E. Elisabet Rutstrèom.

Presents an introduction to the issues and applications of experimental economics. This volume examines the methodology of field experiments, and offers various applications of field experiments. The applications cover issues such as risk and time preferences of the Danish population, savings decisions of the Canadian working poor, and more.

0080460224 (electronic bk.) 9780080460222 (electronic bk.) (Cloth)


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