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expecon-identification
Use when the credibility of an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript rests on experimental control — incentive compatibility, randomization, the no-deception gate, and clean treatment contrasts. Stress-tests design-based identification before exhibits are finalized; it does not draft prose.
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# Experimental Control & Identification (expecon-identification)
## When to trigger
- A referee questions whether the treatment effect is causal or an artifact of an uncontrolled difference
- Payoffs may not be **incentive compatible** — subjects could earn more by misreporting, or stakes are hypothetical/trivial
- Any procedure risks tripping the **ESA no-deception norm** (false feedback, fake co-players, rigged draws, undisclosed payoff manipulation)
- Randomization, session structure, or the order of treatments could confound the comparison
## Identification at ExpEcon = control + a clean contrast
In observational economics, identification is an argument about why selection does not bias the estimate. In the lab, **you manufacture identification by design**: randomization plus tight control means the *only* systematic difference across conditions is the manipulated dimension. The job here is to verify that claim holds, on four fronts.
### 1. The two gates (binary; check first)