Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants

Paul Frijters, Tao Sherry Kong and Elaine Liu

No 8843, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of migrants from which they were recruited. The experimental participants were more educated, more likely to lend money to friends, and worked fewer hours than the general population. They differ significantly from non-participants in terms of regression coefficients, such as the effects of wealth and marital status on the probability of being self-employed and distance migrated. We thus find that there was selection into our experiments on the basis of both observable characteristics and on unobserved differences in behavioral relations.

Keywords: artefactual field experiment; participation bias; rural migrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 C90 C93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2015-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-mig and nep-tra
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Published - published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2015, 114 (C), 62-74

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