What does "clean" really mean? The implicit framing of decontextualized experiments

Economics Letters

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 386-389

  Engel, Christoph ^a   Rand, David G ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Framing; Social dilemmas; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892885101     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.12.020     Document Type: Article

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