On Uneven Expected Earnings in the Lab

16 Pages Posted: 25 Feb 2014

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Jade Wong

UNSW Business School

Andreas Ortmann

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics

Date Written: February 17, 2014

Abstract

We discuss ways to cope with uneven expected lab earnings that are the likely results of role assignments. We identify three problems associated with uneven earnings in the lab: of social preferences, of low marginal return for effort, and of perceived deception. Mining the opinions of respondents from the Economic Science Association’s (ESA) discussion list, the literature, and drawing on our own experience, we present five responses experimenters can use to mitigate the three problems. We discuss the merits and drawbacks of each strategy.

Keywords: uneven expected lab earnings, social preferences, preferences

JEL Classification: B41, C91, C92

Suggested Citation

Wong, Jade and Ortmann, Andreas, On Uneven Expected Earnings in the Lab (February 17, 2014). UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2014-07, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2398725 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2398725

Jade Wong

UNSW Business School ( email )

UNSW Business School
High St
Sydney, NSW 2052
Australia

Andreas Ortmann (Contact Author)

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics ( email )

High Street
Sydney, NSW 2052
Australia

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