Subject evaluation in social experiments.

This paper analyzes how self-interested subjects, as opposed to altruistic investigators, evaluate treatments in social experiments. We argue that the attrition behavior of subjects reveals their evaluation of treatments, and we discuss the usefulness of using such data in performing subject-based e...

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Published in:	Econometrica Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 381 - 409
Main Authors:	Philipson, Tomas J., Hedges, Larry V.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell March 1998
Subjects:	Experimental economics Human research subjects Statistical hypothesis testing Econometrics Clinical trials
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