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Form and function in experimental design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Alvin E. Roth
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Al_roth@harvard.edu www.economics.harvard.edu/~aroth/alroth.html
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Abstract

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Standard practices in experimental economics arise for different reasons. The “no deception” rule comes from a cost-benefit tradeoff; other practices have to do with the uses to which economists put experiments. Because experiments are part of scientific conversations that mostly go on within disciplines, differences in standard practices between disciplines are likely to persist.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press