Viewpoint: On the Generalizability of Lab Behaviour to the Field

By Steven D. Levitt, John A. List. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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The Bright Side of Managerial Over-Optimism (2016, background): “Prior studies (e.g., Smith, 2003; Levitt and List, 2007; Harrison and List, 2008; Henrich et al., 2010 and among others) Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2286226 6 be over-optimistic and overconfident.”
The Promise and Success of Lab-Field Generalizability in Experimental Economics: A Critical Reply to Levitt and List (2011, background): “If experimenters could guide the subjects’ behavior so strongly, and chose to, it would be a lot easier to publish papers! To illustrate their fears concretely, Levitt and List [2007a] describe the subject’s-eye view of (a fictional) “Jane”, who participates in an abstract experimental game designed”
Like ripples on a pond: behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy (2015, result): “Similar forms of extrapolation have been documented by experimental economists looking at the links between the lab and the field (Harrison & List, 2004; Levitt & List, 2007a, 2007b; Levitt, List, & Reiley, 2010).”
Human behavioral ecology: current research and future prospects (2013, background): “2007), and much of behavioral economics consists of artificial games whose relevance to actual allocation decisions outwith the laboratory has been questioned (Levitt and List 2007; Bardsley 2008; Gurven and Winking 2008).”
On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations (2018, background): “This practice is frequently criticized, because students are neither representative of the general population nor do they correspond to the populations that are of interest in most studies (Levitt & List, 2007a, 2007b).”
Field Experiments in Economics: the Past, the Present, and the Future (2008, unknown): “Making generalizations outside of this domain might prove difficult in some cases ( see Harrison and List , 2004 ; Levitt and List , 2007a , b ) , but to obtain the effect of treatment in this particular domain the only assumption necessary is appropriate randomization .”
A Tough Act to Follow: Contrast Effects in Financial Markets (2018, unknown): “One of the main contributions of our paper is to further the understanding of how psychological biases found in the lab manifest in real-world settings (e.g., Levitt and List, 2007a,b).”
Viewpoint: Replication in Economics (2007, background): “The argument might be applied, albeit with less force, to field experiments, increasingly in vogue in the literatures in policy evaluation and mechanism design (see Levitt and List 2007).”