Incentives for subjects in internet experiments

Peter Duersch, Jörg Oechssler and Burkhard Schipper ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Peter Dürsch

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 105, issue 1, pages 120-122

Abstract: Providing incentives to subjects in internet experiments can be tricky. One simple method is a high score (as in computer games). We test whether high scores provide adequate incentives in comparison to the usual performance based incentives. We find significant differences.

Keywords: Incentives; Experiments; Internet; High; score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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