This chapter surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We
begin with a discussion of methodological issues: when (and why) is a lab experiment the …

This chapter explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of
academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is …

A critical question facing experimental economists is whether behavior inside the laboratory
is a good indicator of behavior outside the laboratory. To address that question, we build a …

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the
causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more …

We present a lab-field experiment designed to systematically assess the external validity of
social preferences elicited in a variety of experimental games. We do this by comparing …

There has been an enormous amount of experimental research devoted to “otherregarding
preferences” since the publication of the first Handbook of Experimental Economics (Kagel …

The study of effort provision in a controlled setting is a key research area in experimental
economics. There are two major methodological paradigms in this literature: stated effort …

Recent discoveries in behavioral economics have led to important new insights concerning
what can happen in markets. Such gains in knowledge have come primarily via laboratory …

Since the 1980s, there has been explosive growth in the use of experimental methods in
economics, leading to exciting developments in economic theory and policy. Despite this …

An important methodological issue in experimental research is the extent to which one
should use context-rich or abstract language in the instructions for an experiment. The …