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Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants / Paul Frijters, Tao Sherry Kong, Elaine M. Liu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frijters, Paul.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20953.
- NBER working paper series no. w20953
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of migrants from which they were recruited. The experimental participants were more educated, more likely to lend money to friends, and worked fewer hours than the general population. They differ significantly from non-participants in terms of regression coefficients, such as the effects of wealth and marital status on the probability of being self-employed and distance migrated. We thus find that there was selection into our experiments on the basis of both observable characteristics and on unobserved differences in behavioral relations.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2015.
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