A case study of an experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic: online elicitation of subjective beliefs and economic preferences
Harrison, Glenn W.; Hofmeyr, Andre; Kincaid, Harold; Monroe, Brian; Ross, Don; Schneider, Mark; Swarthout, J. Todd
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2021-12-18
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© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Economic Science Association 2021. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40881-021-00115-7
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Harrison, G., Hofmeyr, A., Kincaid, H., Monroe, B., Ross, D., Schneider, M. and Swarthout, J., ( 2021) ‘A case study of an experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic: online elicitation of subjective beliefs and economic preferences’, Journal of the Economic Science Association, 7(2), pp.194-209. doi: 10.1007/s40881-021-00115-7
Abstract:
We convey our experiences developing and implementing an online experiment to elicit subjective beliefs and economic preferences. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated closures of our laboratories required us to conduct an online experiment in order to collect beliefs and preferences associated with the pandemic in a timely manner. Since we had not previously conducted a similar multi-wave online experiment, we faced design and implementation considerations that are not present when running a typical laboratory experiment. By discussing these details more fully, we hope to contribute to the online experiment methodology literature at a time when many other researchers may be considering conducting an online experiment for the first time. We focus primarily on methodology; in a complementary study we focus on initial research findings.
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