Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand

被引：263

作者：

de Quidt, Jonathan ^{[1
]}

Haushofer, Johannes ^{[2
,3
,4
,5
]}

Roth, Christopher ^{[6
,7
]}

机构：

[1] Stockholm Univ, Inst Int Econ Studies, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[2] Princeton Univ, Dept Psychol, 427 Peretsman Scully Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA

[3] Princeton Univ, Woodrow Wilson Sch Publ & Int Affairs, 427 Peretsman Scully Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA

[4] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[5] Busara Ctr Behav Econ, Nairobi, Kenya

[6] Univ Oxford, Dept Econ, Keble Coll, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PG, England

[7] CSAE, Toronto, ON, Canada

来源：

AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2018年 / 108卷 / 11期

关键词：

MEASURING SOCIAL PREFERENCES; DICTATOR GAME; ANONYMITY;

D O I：

10.1257/aer.20171330

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We propose a technique for assessing robustness to demand effects of findings from experiments and surveys. The core idea is that by deliberately inducing demand in a structured way we can bound its influence. We present a model in which participants respond to their beliefs about the researcher's objectives. Bounds are obtained by manipulating those beliefs with "demand treatments." We apply the method to 11 classic tasks, and estimate bounds averaging 0.13 standard deviations, suggesting that typical demand effects are probably modest. We also show how to compute demand-robust treatment effects and how to structurally estimate the model.

引用

页码：3266 / 3302

页数：37

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