Description of the TICKETS (in ERS project) instrument (6 dec 2010-- this needs to be fixed)


This version uses from 1 to 4 types of tickets, each participant can get up to 2 tickets. 

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Output variables. Note that if only 1 ticket is used, the var2 variables will be blank.

 Offers:
  GROUP1       -- Group of the first ticket. Does not change.
  GROUP2        -- group of the 2nd ticket. Does not change

   PRODCOST1   Production cost for ticket 1 (randomly generated by client for each auction, or preset in reference data)
   PRODCOST2   Production for ticket 2  ...

   PRODCOST_LOWER1   These are used when "cost range" is enable. It is the upper and lower bounds of the cost range
   PRODCOST_UPPER1   displayed (for tickets 1 and 2). If cost range is NOT enables, both the lower and upper bounds
   PRODCOST_LOWER2   are equal to the PRODCOST (i.e.; a cost range of 0 is used to compute the upper and lower bound)
   PRODCOST_UPPER2  


   OFFER1       -- the offer for ticket 1. If no offer, this will be empty
   OFFER2       --  for ticket 2 ...

  MAXBID1  : The maximum bid for ticket 1. Either the overall (type-specific) max, or the ticket specific maximum
  MAXBID2  : The maximum bid for ticket 2...

  FEE1    : The submission fee for ticket 1. Either 0, or the ticket specific submission fee
  FEE2    : The submission fee for ticket 2.

 Debriefing questions: For all these questions, 0=FALSE and 1=TRUE, or . for missing value

   QTEST1 
     If you do not submit a bid, your earnings for the auction will be zero.   TRUE
          
   QTEST2
       If you submit a bid, and it is rejected, the amount you earn for the auction  is your $participation_bonus.  FALSE

   QTEST3 
      Your ticket's cost will be the same in every auction. FALSE

   QTEST4 
        If you submit a bid and it is accepted, your earnings for the auction will equal your bid minus  your ticket's cost. TRUE

   QTEST5
     If your bid is less than your  ticket's cost, and your bid is accepted, 
     the difference (converted from E-bucks to dollars) will be  subtracted from your
     $participation_bonus.  TRUE.

  The QTESTn values are saved in the following format:  N.M  -- where N and M are either 0 or 1 (0=false, 1=True)
  N is the answer, and M is the correct answer. Thus, the following values have the following meanings
        1.1 : answered T, and the correct answer was T (true)
        1.0 : answered T, and the correct answer was F (false)
        0.1 : answered F, and the correct answer was T
        0.0 : answered F, and the correct answer was F 
   If "N" is missing (if the answer is .0 or .1), that means the respondent did NOT answer the question.

 Socio-economic (end of experiment) questions. For all of them, . means "missing value".

   INFO6    Have you ever participated in an economics experiment before
           0=No, 1=Yes

   INFO7    If you have, please approximate the number of experimental sessions you have participated in.                
            A number.

   INFO8    How did you find out about the experiment
                1: Email
                2: Friend
                3: Advertising
                4: Class announcements

   INFO9     What is your major?                
           Text answer (will be "" ed)

   INFO10  How many economics classes (including those you are currently enrolled in) have you taken?
           A number
        
    INFO11   Comments
          A quoted text string.


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  Attributes of tickets.
        Ticket # : a reference id
        GROUP   :  What group (or Type) this ticket is in. Can be 1 or 2 (ticket # and group # are independent)
        FEE     : Submission fee


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