Raising "lab rats"
Identificadores
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31555Metadata
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Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica
Materia
Demographic characteristics Experiments Subject pool
Date
2010Referencia bibliográfica
Guillén, P.; Veszteg, R.F. Raising "lab rats". Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2010). (The Papers; 09/11). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31555]
Abstract
Experimental subjects usually self-select to the laboratory and this may introduce a bias to the derived conclusions. We analyze data stored by a subject-pool management software at an experimental laboratory and speculate about the e ect of individual decisions on returning. In particular, we test whether experience and earnings in previous sessions together with demographic variables explain the decision to return to the laboratory. We nd that males and (in monetary terms) well-performing subjects are more likely to participate again in experiments.