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Designing, Evaluating, and Using Synthetic Participants in Behavioural Public Policy: The PATH Checklist

2026-06-29

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<p>Large language models are increasingly used to generate synthetic participants that simulate human responses to surveys, experiments, and policy proposals. This approach is attractive for behavioural public policy because it is fast, scalable, and inexpensive, and it can support early-stage exploration, pre-testing, and policy development. However, rapid adoption has outpaced the development of shared standards...

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Literature Corpus work: c4ffc917-ce7a-567e-aa6a-66f32b3b3409
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/a7nq8_v1

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