Artificiality: The tension between internal and external validity in economic experiments

By Arthur Schram. 2005

273 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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In Demography

1. Steven D. Levitt
2. John A. List
3. Jens Großer
4. Zachary Chase Lipton
5. C. Breuer
6. Jacob Steinhardt
7. Christopher Rumpf
8. Jia Jin

In Economics and Econometrics

1. John A. List
2. Steven D. Levitt
3. Jens Großer
4. Zachary Chase Lipton
5. C. Breuer
6. Jacob Steinhardt
7. Christopher Rumpf
8. Peter Kenning

In Safety Research

1. John A. List
2. Steven D. Levitt
3. Zachary Chase Lipton
4. Jens Großer
5. C. Breuer
6. Jacob Steinhardt
7. Christopher Rumpf
8. Peter Kenning

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Information Provision on Agglomeration Bonus Performance: An Experimental Study on Local Networks (2014, unknown): “The controlled and context-free laboratory environment permits the “windtunnel testing” of the AB scheme for internal validity and analysis of general principles of human behavior under the treatment conditions (Schram 2005) before it can be tested in richer field contexts with actual landowners who”
• Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship (2018, background): “As another example, generalization has both a specific technical meaning (generalizing from train to test) and a more colloquial meaning that is closer to the notion of transfer (generalizing from one population to another) or of external validity (generalizing from an experimental setting to the re”
• What Do Laboratory Experiments Tell Us About the Real World (2006, background): “For example, Mook (1983) and Schram (2005) detail some arguments of cases where they believe that it is not important.”
• The Viewer's Reception and Processing of Sponsorship Information in Sport Telecasts (2012, background): “Experimental studies are often faced with the criticism that they do not reflect the ‘real world’ due to the artificiality of the laboratory environment (Schram, 2005).”
• Neighborhood Information Exchange and Voter Participation: An Experimental Study (2006, background): “There is always a tradeoff between this internal validity and the external validity of experiments, that is, the possibility of generalizing the conclusions to situations outside of the laboratory (Schram 2005).”
• Charity begins at home: cultural differences in social discounting and generosity (2014, methodology): “The experiment did not involve deception and was performed in an incentivecompatible way and thus met the standards for economic research (Schram, 2005; Shane, 1998).”