Field Experiments in a Course on Behavioral Economics: Nudging Students Around Campus

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Castilla
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Field Experiments

Look how far we have come

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER CLAGUE
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Behavioral Models ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Experimental Subjects ◽  
Better Than

Abstract:Economics has changed enormously since Professor Ha-Joon Chang burst onto the scene in the early 1990s. His critiques of mainstream economics are far more applicable to the discipline at that time than they are now. Whatever the shortcomings of the current literature on institutions and development, progress is not being held back by conceptual blinders imposed by economic orthodoxy. Game theory and behavioral economics have enriched the menu of models acceptable in the professional journals. More important, empirical standards have greatly advanced. Behavioral models are being confronted with computerized games and even with in-the-field experiments, especially in poor countries where recruiting experimental subjects is cheaper. The recent literature does not merely undermine traditional assumptions; it offers parsimonious interpretations that help us to understand the economy and the polity better than before.

Experimental Methodology in Political Science

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose McDermott
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Experimental Realism

Experiments offer a useful methodological tool to examine issues of importance to political scientists. The historical and cultural differences between experiments in behavioral economics and social psychology are discussed. Issues of central concern to experimentalists are covered, including impact versus control, mundane versus experimental realism, internal versus external validity, deception, and laboratory versus field experiments. Advantages and disadvantages of experimentation are summarized.

On the Role of Group Size in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from Laboratory and Field Experiments

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (10) ◽  
pp. 4359-4377 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. List ◽  
Daan van Soest ◽  
Jan Stoop ◽  
Haiwen Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Group Size ◽  
Field Experiments

We explore how individual equilibrium effort in tournaments varies with the number of contestants. The probability of winning a tournament depends on both effort and luck, and we show that the distribution of the luck component is critical in determining individual equilibrium effort. Our theory predicts that equilibrium effort is an increasing (decreasing) function of the number of contestants if there is considerable (little) mass on favorable draws. We test our theory using both laboratory and field experiments, and find substantial support for our theory in both settings. This paper was accepted by Teck Ho, behavioral economics.

scholarly journals Combining behavioral economics and field experiments to reimagine early childhood education

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN A. LIST ◽  
ANYA SAMEK ◽  
DANA L. SUSKIND
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Education Production Function ◽  
Education Production ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distinct Features

AbstractBehavioral economics and field experiments within the social sciences have advanced well beyond academic curiosum. Governments around the globe as well as the most powerful firms in modern economies employ staffs of behavioralists and experimentalists to advance and test best practices. In this study, we combine behavioral economics with field experiments to reimagine a new model of early childhood education. Our approach has three distinct features. First, by focusing public policy dollars on prevention rather than remediation, we call for much earlier educational programs than currently conceived. Second, our approach has parents at the center of the education production function rather than at its periphery. Third, we advocate attacking the macro education problem using a public health methodology, rather than focusing on piecemeal advances.

Evidence based development economics: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
R. S. Enikolopov
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Empirical Estimation ◽  
Microeconomic Analysis ◽  
And Gender

The 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for developing experimental approach to studying the problem of reducing world inequality. The works of laureates combine detailed microeconomic analysis of practical problems related to development economics with careful empirical estimation of the effects of particular development programs through the use of field experiments. The paper discusses methodological contribution of the laureates, their influence on changing economists’ approach to working on practical issues related to development economics. The paper also provides a short survey of the results of their research in areas of economics of education, health and behavioral economics, microcredit, and gender inequality.

Electron Microscopy of the Shape of Small Metal Particles

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 300-301
Author(s):  
M. Jose Yacaman
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Metal Particle ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Size Range ◽  
Dark Field ◽  
Metal Particles ◽  
Bragg Condition ◽  
Crystal Particle ◽  
Small Metal Particle ◽  
Small Metal Particles

In the Study of small metal particles the shape is a very Important parameter. Using electron microscopy Ino and Owaga(l) have studied the shape of twinned particles of gold. In that work electron diffraction and contrast (dark field) experiments were used to produce models of a crystal particle. In this work we report a method which can give direct information about the shape of an small metal particle in the amstrong- size range with high resolution. The diffraction pattern of a sample containing small metal particles contains in general several systematic and non- systematic reflections and a two-beam condition can not be used in practice. However a N-beam condition produces a reduced extinction distance. On the other hand if a beam is out of the bragg condition the effective extinction distance is even more reduced.

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