Universität Wien

390013 DK PhD-M: Experimental and Simulation Methods (2014S)

Continuous assessment of course work


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First part Prof. Dr. Kittel: 5.3., 19.3., 2.4., 9.4. 30.4.
9:00 - 12:00

Second Part Prof. Dr. Wagner: 7.5, 14.5., 21.5., 28.5., 18.6., 25.6.

Wednesday, 9:00 - 12:00

Room 04.323 4th Floor, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 15 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 02.04. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 09.04. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 30.04. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 07.05. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 14.05. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 21.05. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 28.05. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 18.06. 09:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Wednesday 25.06. 09:00 - 12:00 PC-Seminarraum 2 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Untergeschoß
    Seminarraum 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The seminar introduces experimental design and the statistical analysis of experimental data. In the first part, we will discuss the usefulness of experiments for both testing theories and finding stylized facts about human behaviour. We will explore different research designs and elaborate on various criteria of validity underlying conclusions about social mechanisms and about their applicability to a wider set of situations. Furthermore, we will look into incentives, in particular induced preferences and social preference, and causes of noise in the data. Finally, we will address some issues relating to deception in experimentation. A workshop on z-Tree closes the first part of the course. Participants are expected to work out an own experiment during the first part of the course and to present the design at the end of this phase.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Readings
(BCLMSS) Bardsley, Nicholas, Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter Moffatt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden (2010) Experimental Economics. Rethinking the Rules, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
(SCC) Shadish, William R., Thomas D. Cook and Donald T. Campbell (2002) Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Fischbacher, Urs. 2007. "Z-Tree: Zurich Toolbox for Ready-Made Economic Experiments." Experimental Economics 10: 171-78.

Further Readings
Davis, Douglas D. and Charles A. Holt (1993) Experimental Economics, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Druckman, James N., Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski and Arthur Lupia (eds.) (2011) Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Falk, Armin and James J. Heckman (2009) 'Lab Experiments are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences', Science 326(535-538).
Fehr, Ernst and Herbert Gintis (2007) 'Human Motivation and Social Cooperation: Experimental and Analytical Foundations', Annual Review of Sociology 33, 43-64.
Kagel, John H. and Alvin E. Roth (eds.) (1995) Handbook of Experimental Economics, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Kinder, Donald R. and Thomas R. Palfrey (eds.) (1993) Experimental Foundations of Political Science, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Kittel, Bernhard, Wolfgang Luhan & Rebecca Morton (eds.) (2012) Experimental Political Science. Principles and Practices, Palgrave-Macmillan.
Morton, Rebecca B. and Kenneth Williams (2010) Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality. From Nature to the Lab, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Plott, Charles A. and Vernon Smith (2008) Handbook of Experimental Economics Results. Volume I, Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Webster Jr., Murray and Jane Sell (eds.) (2007) Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences, Amsterdam: Academic Press.

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