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  • Behavioral Economics
  • Social Psychology
  • Crowdsourced Experimentation

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  • Online platforms like Mechanical Turk offer diverse participant pools for behavioral research.
  • Validating crowdsourced experiments requires assessing internal validity and cross-country equivalence.
  • Understanding context effects is crucial for interpreting behavior in online experiments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the internal validity of crowdsourced bargaining games by varying monetary stakes.
  • To examine cross-country equivalence in bargaining behavior between India and the US, adjusting for purchasing power parity.
  • To identify context effects on elicited behavior by manipulating participants' living conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted online Ultimatum and Dictator Games with participants from Mechanical Turk in India and the US.
  • Varied monetary stakes ($0, $1, $4, $10) and adjusted for purchasing power parity across countries.
  • Analyzed context-dependency by varying participants' geographical location, regional affluence, and local social capital.

Main Results:

  • Marginal totals from crowdsourced games closely corresponded to laboratory findings.
  • Monetary incentives induced more selfish behavior, but stake size did not significantly alter behavior.
  • Behavior varied across different "virtual pools" within a range comparable to stake effects.

Conclusions:

  • Crowdsourced online experiments provide a valid and versatile tool for behavioral research.
  • Contextual factors, such as geographical location and social capital, significantly impact behavior in online bargaining games.
  • The ability to quasi-experimentally vary participant characteristics is a key strength of crowdsourced online designs.