Session-effects in the laboratory

In experimental economics, where subjects participate in different sessions, observations across subjects of a given session might exhibit more correlation than observations across subjects in different sessions. The main goal of this paper is to clarify what are session-effects: what can cause them...

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Published inExperimental economics : a journal of the Economic Science Association Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 485 - 498
Main Author Fréchette, Guillaume R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.09.2012
Springer Science + Business Media B.V
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Behavioral/Experimental Economics
Data analysis
Design of experiments
Economic potential
Economic theory
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Economics
Economics and Finance
Experiment design
Experimental economics
Experimentelle Ökonomik
Experiments
Game Theory
Hypotheses
Laboratories
Microeconomics
Observation
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Social and Behav. Sciences
Studies
Subject
Variables
United States > US
Data analysis
Session-effects
Hypothesis tests
Experimental design
Unit of observation
Matching procedure
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Summary:In experimental economics, where subjects participate in different sessions, observations across subjects of a given session might exhibit more correlation than observations across subjects in different sessions. The main goal of this paper is to clarify what are session-effects: what can cause them, what forms they can take, and what are the potential problems. It will be shown that standard solutions are at times inadequate, and that their properties are sometimes misunderstood.
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ISSN:1386-4157
1573-6938
DOI:10.1007/s10683-011-9309-1