Do participation rates vary with participation payments in laboratory experiments?

• Published in: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic Science Association Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 1140 - 1157
• Main Authors: Zhong, Huizhen, Deck, Cary, Henderson, Daniel J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.11.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Behavioral/Experimental Economics; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Economics; Economics and Finance; Experiments; Game Theory; Laboratories; Microeconomics; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Participation; Payments; Recruitment; Selection bias; Skepticism; Social and Behav. Sciences; Participation payment; Selection bias; C91; D81; Laboratory experiments; Treatment effect
• ISSN: 1386-4157; 1573-6938
• DOI: 10.1007/s10683-024-09840-2

This paper reports a series of experiments designed to evaluate how the advertised participation payment impacts participation rates in laboratory experiments. Our initial goal was to generate variation in the participation rate as a means to control for selection bias when evaluating treatment effe...