How validity travelled to economic experimenting

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-28

  Heukelom, Floris ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experiments; Tests; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957504688     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2011.556435     Document Type: Article

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