Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305517 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11275
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
We provide a practical guide to designing, conducting, and analyzing experiments using social media platforms. First, we discuss the benefits and challenges of using the targeting capabilities of advertisements on social media to recruit participants for a large class of experiments. Next, we outline the different types of interventions and their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, we summarize available compliance and outcome data, as well as the main limitations and challenges involved in the design and analysis of social media experiments. Throughout, we provide technical details that are helpful when implementing these experiments. Overall, we argue that experiments on social media are powerful not only for studying economic issues around social media and online platforms but also for experiments studying economic behavior more broadly.
Subjects: 
social media
experiments
digital interventions
subject recruitment
experiment design
JEL: 
C90
C93
L82
L96
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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