What brings your subjects to the lab? A field experiment

Experimental Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 482-489

  Krawczyk, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Experimental economics; Incentives; Recruitment procedures; Selection into experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255136280     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-011-9277-5     Document Type: Article

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