ECON 8877: Experimental Economics Methods

Spring 20XX (not currently offered)

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:20–3:40 p.m. // Bricker 330

Professor: P.J. Healy
Email: healy.52@osu.edu
Office: Bricker 270

What's the right way to run an economics experiment?

This course will cover the methodological issues involved in running an experiment in the traditions and norms of experimental economics.

Assignments

  1. Assignment #1: Simulating Hypothesis Test Power and Validity
  2. Assignment #2: Simulating Regressions with Clustering, Fixed Effects, and Random Effects

Lectures

  1. Vernon's Precepts
  2. Incentivized Experiments: A History
  3. Why Incentivize??
  4. Intro to Hypothesis Testing and Fay & Proschan's (2010) ``Perspectives''
  5. Resampling Methods Permutation Tests & Bootstrapping
  6. Popular Hypothesis Tests
  7. Multiple Hypotheses Corrections
  8. Ethical & Unethical Research Practices
  9. Robust SEs, Clustering, Fixed & Random Effects
  10. Measurement Error & Attenuation Bias in OLS
  11. Binary Dependent Variables: Logit & Probit
  12. MLE, Finite Mixture Models, & Model Selection
  13. A Decision Theory Primer
  14. The Theory of Incentive Compatible Experiments
  15. Empirical Tests of Incentive Compatibility
  16. Dynamic Incentives (Very Incomplete)
  17. Incentive Compatible Belief Elicitation
  18. A Theory of Testing Theories
  19. Clever Elicitations & Choice Process Data (Very Incomplete)

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