Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5952, 2009, Pages 535-538

  Falk, Armin ^a   Heckman, James J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ACQUISITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPERIMENT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LABORATORY TEST; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH PRIORITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SCIENTIST; SOCIOLOGY;

ECONOMICS; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 70350518099     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168244     Document Type: Review

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