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

Muriel Niederle

No 33630, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: C9 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-03
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