MTurk research: Review and recommendations

H Aguinis, I Villamor, RS Ramani - Journal of Management, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) in management research has increased over
2,117% in recent years, from 6 papers in 2012 to 133 in 2019. Among scholars, though …

Experiments and surveys on political elites

JD Kertzer, J Renshon - Annual Review of Political Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
One of the major developments in political science in the past decade has been the rise of
experiments and surveys on political elites. Yet, the increase in the number of elite studies …

Designing information provision experiments

I Haaland, C Roth, J Wohlfart - Journal of economic literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Understanding tax policy: How do people reason?

S Stantcheva - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income
taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale social economics surveys issued to …

Real solutions for fake news? Measuring the effectiveness of general warnings and fact-check tags in reducing belief in false stories on social media

K Clayton, S Blair, JA Busam, S Forstner, J Glance… - Political behavior, 2020 - Springer
Social media has increasingly enabled “fake news” to circulate widely, most notably during
the 2016 US presidential campaign. These intentionally false or misleading stories threaten …

Validating the demographic, political, psychological, and experimental results obtained from a new source of online survey respondents

A Coppock, OA McClellan - Research & politics, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have increasingly turned to online convenience samples as sources of survey
responses that are easy and inexpensive to collect. As reliance on these sources has grown …

Does affective polarization undermine democratic norms or accountability? Maybe not

DE Broockman, JL Kalla… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Scholars warn that affective polarization undermines democratic norms and accountability.
They speculate that if citizens were less affectively polarized, they would be less likely to …

Increasing precision without altering treatment effects: Repeated measures designs in survey experiments

S Clifford, G Sheagley, S Piston - American Political Science Review, 2021 - cambridge.org
The use of survey experiments has surged in political science. The most common design is
the between-subjects design in which the outcome is only measured posttreatment. This …

Does information change attitudes toward immigrants?

A Grigorieff, C Roth, D Ubfal - Demography, 2020 - Springer
Strategies aimed at reducing negative attitudes toward immigrants are at the core of
integration policies. A large literature shows that misperceptions about the size and …

Measuring and bounding experimenter demand

J De Quidt, J Haushofer, C Roth - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We propose a technique for assessing robustness to demand effects of findings from
experiments and surveys. The core idea is that by deliberately inducing demand in a …