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Experiments: Why, How, and A Users Guide for Producers as well as Consumers

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  • Muriel Niederle

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This chapter is intended as an introduction to laboratory experiments, when to use, how to evaluate them, why they matter and what are the pitfalls when designing them. I hope that users as well as consumers will find Sections that broaden their views. I start with when an economist might want to run an experiment. I then discuss basic lessons when designing experiments. I introduce a language to start a systematic description of tools we have when designing experiments to show the importance or role of a new model or force in explaining behavior. The penultimate chapter provides an advanced toolkit for running experiments. I end this chapter with my views on pre-registration, pre-analysis plans and the need for replications, robustness tests and extensions.

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  • Muriel Niederle, 2025. "Experiments: Why, How, and A Users Guide for Producers as well as Consumers," NBER Working Papers 33630, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:33630
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