TY  - JOUR
AU  - List,John A.
AU  - Sadoff,Sally
AU  - Wagner,Mathis
TI  - So you want to run an experiment, now what? Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Optimal Experimental Design
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15701
PY  - 2010
Y2  - January 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15701
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15701.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John List
Department of Economics
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 301/405-1288
Fax: 301/314-9091
E-Mail: jlist@uchicago.edu

Sally Sadoff
Rady School of Management
University of California San Diego
E-Mail: sadoff@uchicago.edu

Mathis Wagner
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Via Real Collegio 30
10024 Moncalieri (TO)
Italy
E-Mail: mathis.wagner@bc.edu
AB  - Experimental economics represents a strong growth industry. In the past several decades the method has expanded beyond intellectual curiosity, now meriting consideration alongside the other more traditional empirical approaches used in economics. Accompanying this growth is an influx of new experimenters who are in need of straightforward direction to make their designs more powerful. This study provides several simple rules of thumb that researchers can apply to improve the efficiency of their experimental designs. We buttress these points by including empirical examples from the literature.
ER  -