Public Goods Game

[From the working paper, “Replication in experimental economics: A historical and**quantitative approach focused on public good game experiments” by Nicolas Vallois and Dorian Jullien*]* The current “replication crisis” concerns the inability of scientists to “replicate”, i.e. to reproduce a great number of their empirical findings. Many disciplines are concerned. Yet things appear to be better in experimental economics (EE).

[NOTE: This post refers to the article “An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science: With an Application to the Public Goods Game” by Luigi Butera and John List. The article is available as a working paper w**hich can be downloaded here.] In the process of generating scientific knowledge, scholars sometimes stumble upon new and surprising results.