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ArticlePloS one2021

Conducting large, repeated, multi-game economic experiments using mobile platforms.

Zhi Li, Po-Hsuan Lin, Si-Yuan Kong, Dongwu Wang, John Duffy

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Zhi LiDepartment of Public Finance, School of Economics & the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4219-0853
Po-Hsuan LinDivision of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States of America.
Si-Yuan KongMobLab Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States of America.
Dongwu WangMobLab Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States of America.
John DuffyDepartment of Economics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-7660-2281

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We demonstrate the possibility of conducting synchronous, repeated, multi-game economic decision-making experiments with hundreds of subjects in-person or remotely with live streaming using entirely mobile platforms. Our experiment provides important proof-of-concept that such experiments are not only possible, but yield recognizable results as well as new insights, blurring the line between laboratory and field experiments. Specifically, our findings from 8 different experimental economics games and tasks replicate existing results from traditional laboratory experiments despite the fact that subjects play those games/task in a specific order and regardless of whether the experiment was conducted in person or remotely. We further leverage our large subject population to study the effect of large (N = 100) versus small (N = 10) group sizes on behavior in three of the scalable games that we study. While our results are largely consistent with existing findings for small groups, increases in group size are shown to matter for the robustness of those findings.

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Decision MakingGames, ExperimentalFemaleHumansMaleMobile Applications

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PMID33914785
PMCPMC8084158

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