Handbook of Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences

Edited by Alex Rees-Jones, Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA

• ContentsIntroduction: a view on experimentalism in the social sciences xiAlex Rees-JonesPART I OVERVIEWS1 Experiments: why, how, and a user’s guide for producers as well as consumers 2Muriel Niederle2 How to run a field experiment 80Anya Samek and Sally SadoffPART II MEASUREMENT AND ELICITATION3 Complexity and its measurement 104Ryan Oprea4 Eliciting beliefs 162Guy Ishai5 Eliciting time preferences 210Michael A. Kuhn6 Measuring confidence 250Sophia Li and Don A. Moore7 Measuring discrimination with experiments 265Ashley Litwin and Corinne Low8 Measuring (dis)honesty 317Marta Serra-Garcia9 Measuring self-reported well-being 338Ori Heffetz and Yehonatan Caspi10 Measuring social preferences 379Michalis DrouvelisPART III SPECIAL TOPICS11 Measuring the physiological choice process 401Ian Krajbich, Dino Levy and Ryan Webb12 Conducting experiments with young populations: children are not little adults 449Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo13 Conducting “real effort” experiments 468David Hagmann and Luxi Shen14 Doing experimental economics in developing countries 489Syon Bhanot and Aishwarya Deshpande15 Experimenter demand effects 502Jonathan de Quidt, Lise Vesterlund and Alistair J. Wilson16 Experiments in political science 530Damien Bol17 Experiments on social media 546Guy Aridor, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Ro’ee Levy and Lena Song18 How to do replicable research 578Anna Dreber and Magnus Johannesson19 Investigating risk preferences using experiments 589Ted O’Donoghue and Jason Somerville

‘I loved reading this Handbook. Edited by Alex Rees-Jones, it brings together leaders in experimental economics to provide a balanced and insightful set of perspectives on the field. What sets this volume apart is its combination of concrete advice on elicitation and measurement techniques in experiments with high-level perspectives from leading scholars. Any researcher who wants to call themselves an experimental economist should consider this Handbook a must read.’