Advances with Field Experiments 2011

Advances with Field Experiments 2011

October 28/29, 2011 at the University of Chicago

Organized by Iwan Barankay (U. of Pennsylvania, CEPR, and IZA) and John A. List (U. of Chicago, IZA, and NBER)

We are pleased to announce a two-day workshop on Advances with Field Experiments. The workshop focuses on field experiments and the interaction with theory, how field experiments are used within organizations, and how field experiments are used to inform and evaluate policy design. It will take place at the University of Chicago on October 28 & 29, 2011. The meeting is designed to bring together economists and researchers from related areas.
An important aim of this workshop is also to provide young researchers with the opportunity to meet and discuss their work with more senior economists.

Keynote Speakers: We are very pleased to announce that at this year's conference Uri Gneezy (UC San Diego) and George Loewenstein (Carnegie-Mellon) will be giving keynote addresses.

Confirmed speakers and papers (as of August 31)

Click here to see the conference schedule.

Philip Babcock (UCSB) (with John Hartman, UCSB) "Networks and Workouts: Treatment Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment"
Iwan Barankay (Wharton UPenn) "Gender differences in productivity responses to performance rankings: Evidence from a randomized workplace experiment"
Emily A. Beam (Michigan) "Perceived Returns to Job Search: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in the Philippines"
Josse Delfgaauw (Erasmus U Rotterdam) (with Robert Dur, Erasmus, Arjan Non, Erasmus, and Willem Verbeke, Erasmus) "The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment"
Amalia Di Girolamo (Chicago) "What makes you change your mind? the effectiveness of financial education"
Jeffrey A. Flory (Maryland) "Micro-Savings & Informal Insurance in Villages: A Natural Field Experiment on the Effects of Financial Deepening on Safety Nets of the Poor"
Xavier Gine (World Bank) (with Lasse Brune, Michigan, Jessica Goldberg, Michigan, and Dean Yang, Michigan) "Commitments to Save: A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi"
Jessica Goldberg (Michigan) (with Xavier Gine, World Bank, Dan Silverman, Michigan, and Dean Yang, Michigan) "Revising commitments: Time Preference and Time-Inconsistency in the Field"
Myriam Hadnes (Frankfurt) (with Björn Vollan, ZMT Bremen, Michael Kosfeld, Frankfurt) "The Dark Side of Solidarity"
David Huffman (Swarthmore) (with Thomas Dohmen, Maastricht U, Armin Falk, Boon U, and Uwe Sunde, U St. Gallen) "Interpreting Time Horizon Effects in Inter-Temporal Choice: Evidence from Artifactual Field Experiments"
Kelsey Jack (Tufts) (with Nava Ashraf, HBS, and Oriana Bandiera, LSE) "No margin, no mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks"
Martin Kanz (World Bank) (with Shawn Cole, HBS, and Leora Klapper, World Bank) "Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from a Series of Experiments with Commercial Bank Loan Officers"
Judd Kessler (Wharton Upenn) "Signals of Support and Public Good Provision"
Nicola Lacetera (Toronto) (with Mario Macis, John Hopkins U, and Robert Slonim, U Sydney) "Motivating Altruism? A natural field experiment"
Andreas Leibbrandt (Chicago) (with Jeffrey Flory, Maryland, and John List, Chicago) "Do competitive work places deter female workers? A natural field experiment"
Randall A. Lewis (Yahoo! Research) (with Justin M. Rao, Yahoo! Research) "A Hard-ability “Theorem” on Measuring Advertising Effectiveness"
Jeffrey A. Livingston (Bentley) (with John A. List, U Chicago, and Susanne Neckermann, ZEW Mannheim) "Complementarities in the Education Production Function"
Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank) (with Xavier Gine, World Bank) "Money or Ideas? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan"
Robert Metcalfe (Oxford) (with Paul Dolan, LSE) "A norm is not enough"
Melanie Morten (Yale) (with Dean Karlan, Yale, and Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth) "A personal touch: Text message reminders and loan repayment"
Susanne Neckermann (ZEW Mannheim) (with Christiane Bradler, ZEW Mannheim, Robert Dur, Erasmus U Rotterdam, and, Arjan Non, Erasmus U Rotterdam) "Employee Recognition and Performance - A Field Experiment"
Muthoni Ngatia (Yale) "Social Networks and Individual Reproductive Decision Making"
Muriel Niederle (Stanford) (with Soohyung Lee, Maryland, and Namwook Kang, Hoseo U) "Do single-sex schools make boys and girls more competitive?"
Dina Pomeranz (HBS) (with Ronald Abraham, and Felipe Kast, Pontiﬁcia Universidad Católica de Chile) "Insurance Through Savings Accounts: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment among Low-Income"
Justin M. Rao (Yahoo! Research) (with James Andreoni, UCSB, and Hannah Trachtman, Poverty Action Lab) "Avoiding Altruism. A Field Experiment on Sorting and Charitable Giving"
Heather Royer (UCSB) (with Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve U) "Childhood Obesity, Parents' Knowledge and Report Cards: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico"
Sally Sadoff (UCSD) (with Steven Levitt, Chicago, John List, Chicago, and Susanne Neckermann, ZEW Mannheim) "The Impact of Short-Term Incentives on Student Achievement"
Anya Savikhin (Chicago) "Is there a Gender Gap in Preschoolers' Competitiveness? An Experiment in the U.S."
Ben Vollaard (Tilburg) (with Robert Dur, Erasmus U Rotterdam) "The power of a bad example. A field experiment in household garbage disposal"

This workshop is funded through the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago, and the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management.

To access the Program of last year's conference, Advances with Field Experiments 2010, please click here.