Centre for Experimental Economics - Centre for Experimental Economics, University of York

Paid participants wanted

We have a number of experiments in the pipeline for which we want participants.

We conduct our experiments in a Computer Room on Campus, and we use an online server. The procedure is as follows: You will turn up, be seated at a computer terminal, You will be given a set of instructions and any questions will be answered. You will be told how long the experiment will last (usually an hour or so). You will do the experiment and then you will be paid and you can leave.

Experiments are simple decision-making problems (in an economics context). They involve no physical effort, and no deception.

You can register as a potential participant by going to the Register and participate page. Registering does not commit you to any experiment, but you will be invited to upcoming experiments and you can then decide whether or not you want to participate.

So REGISTER now! And earn money by participating in an economics experiment.

Information for potential users of our online lab

As ever, we welcome other experimental economists to use our (online) lab; several people have already used it. Anyone wanting to use it should contact John Hey. Below are the 'rules and regulations'.

All subjects in any experiment should be members of the University of York. This is a condition imposed on us by IT for security reasons. This will be the case if they are recruited from our hroot register.

All experimenters should also have a York username.

All users of the laboratory will be asked to sign their agreement to the Ethical Statement (PDF , 646kb) agreed by EXEC with the University.

This document Running an Online Experiment at York (MS Word , 15kb) describes the operation of the laboratory that potential experimentalists will find invaluable. It describes the processes for Ztree and exe experiments.

You can download a Template for hroot invitations (MS Word , 12kb) and a Template for hroot confirmations (MS Word , 13kb) that you will fnd useful for hroot.

Here is a Matlab program that you may find useful. Run it from your downloads folder.

Here there are exec receipts (PDF , 30kb) for use in experiments. For online experiments, Finance will collect receipts.

Potential users should contact Mark Wilson in advance of their experiment, informing him what items they need for their experiment (if other than Ztree and an exe experiment).