Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/181336 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7136
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments with student participants. Behavior in the student population offers bounds on behaviors in other populations, and correlations between behaviors are largely similar across samples. Furthermore, non-student samples exhibit higher measurement error. Adding historical lab participation data, we find a small set of attributes over which lab participants differ from non-lab participants. Using an additional set of lab experiments, we see no evidence of observer effects.
Subjects: 
lab selection
external validity
experiments
JEL: 
B41
C80
C90
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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