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Experimental Economics Research: Is there an alternative to having huge research budgets?

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  • Amy Moore

    (Southern Utah University)

  • Michael Taylor

    (Berkeley Mathemarketics Group)

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The need to pay subjects to participate in experiments places a major financial burden on experimental economists. In this paper, we conduct dictator games and find that there is no difference in the way student subjects split money and extra-credit points, an encouraging result that suggests that giving course points could be a viable alternative to giving out cash in economic experiments.

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  • Amy Moore & Michael Taylor, 2007. "Experimental Economics Research: Is there an alternative to having huge research budgets?," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 3(4), pages 1-6.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-06c90006
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