Prolific.ac—A subject pool for online experiments

Stefan Palan () and Christian Schitter

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2018, vol. 17, issue C, 22-27

Abstract: The number of online experiments conducted with subjects recruited via online platforms has grown considerably in the recent past. While one commercial crowdworking platform – Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – basically has established and since dominated this field, new alternatives offer services explicitly targeted at researchers. In this article, we present www.prolific.ac and lay out its suitability for recruiting subjects for social and economic science experiments. After briefly discussing key advantages and challenges of online experiments relative to lab experiments, we trace the platform’s historical development, present its features, and contrast them with requirements for different types of social and economic experiments.

Keywords: Prolific; Online experiment; Subject pool (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B41 C81 C93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (176)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214635017300989

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:beexfi:v:17:y:2018:i:c:p:22-27

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2017.12.004

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance is currently edited by Michael Dowling and Jürgen Huber

More articles in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().