Evaluating Experimental Designs

This manuscript forms the introductory chapter of the Handbook of Experimental Methodology, edited by us, forthcoming from Elsevier. We are indebted to Isabelle Brocas, Colin Camerer, Jonathan Chapman, Dietmar Fehr, Simon Gachter, Andrej Gill, Andreas Grunewald, Holger Herz, Florian Hett, Michael Kosfeld, Marta Kozakiewicz, Erin Krupka, Noemi Peter, David Poensgen, Hannah Schildberg-Horisch, Zahra Sharafi, Charlie Sprenger, Stefan Trautmann, and Sevgi Yuksel for useful discussions. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.