Artificiality: The tension between internal and external validity in economic experiments

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 225-237

  Schram, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificiality; External validity; Internal validity; Laboratory experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444450623     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780500086081     Document Type: Article

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