Subject Pools and Deception in Agricultural and Resource Economics Experiments

• Published in: Environmental & resource economics Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 743 - 758
• Main Authors: Cason, Timothy N., Wu, Steven Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.07.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural practices; Agriculture; Agronomy; Credibility; Deception; Design of experiments; Economic Policy; Economic theory; Economics; Economics and Finance; Environmental Economics; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Environmental Management; Experimental design; Externality; Flexibility; guidelines; Interdisciplinary aspects; issues and policy; Measurement; Norms; professionals; Researchers; Selection bias; students; Q10; Methodology; C90; Laboratory experiments; Field experiments; Q50; Q30

The use of student subjects and deception in experiments are two controversial issues that often raise concerns among editors and reviewers, which might prevent quality research from being published in agricultural and resource economics (ARE) journals. We provide a self-contained methodological dis...