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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Mathematical and Quantitative Methods: Design of Experiments


2011
w17636 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Robert Slonim

Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

w17545 Ernst Fehr
Oliver D. Hart
Christian Zehnder

How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

w17482 John Bridges
Christine Buttorff
Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn

Estimating Patients' Preferences for Medical Devices: Does the Number of Profile in Choice Experiments Matter?

w17473 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w17472 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

Is There a 'Hidden Cost of Control' in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w17385 Liran Einav
Theresa Kuchler
Jonathan D. Levin
Neel Sundaresan

Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets

w17340 Soohyung Lee
Muriel Niederle
Hye-Rim Kim
Woo-Keum Kim

Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets

w17324 Judd B. Kessler
Alvin E. Roth

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

w17287 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment

w17234 Ilyana Kuziemko
Ryan W. Buell
Taly Reich
Michael I. Norton

"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications

w17189 Paul J. Ferraro
Michael K. Price

Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

w17062 Jens Ludwig
Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan

Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17033 James Andreoni
Laura K. Gee

Gun For Hire: Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?

w17032 James Andreoni
Laura K. Gee

The Hired Gun Mechanism

w17022 Romney B. Duffey
The Quantification of Systemic Risk and Stability: New Methods and Measures

w17014 Markus M. Mobius
Muriel Niederle
Paul Niehaus
Tanya S. Rosenblat

Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence

w16908 John A. List
Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience

w16887 Erin Todd Bronchetti
Thomas S. Dee
David B. Huffman
Ellen Magenheim

When a Nudge Isn’t Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers

w16791 Syngjoo Choi
Shachar Kariv
Wieland Müller
Dan Silverman

Who Is (More) Rational?

w16715 Ori Heffetz
John A. List

Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?

w16687 Philip Babcock
Kelly Bedard
Gary Charness
John Hartman
Heather Royer

Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives


2010
w16581 Philip S. Babcock
John L. Hartman

Networks and Workouts: Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment

w16547 Omar Al-Ubaydli
Uri Gneezy
Min Sok Lee
John A. List

Toward an understanding of the relative strengths of positive and negative reciprocity

w16546 Jeffrey A. Flory
Andreas Leibbrandt
John A. List

Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions

w16483 Catherine L. Kling
John A. List
Jinhua Zhao

A Dynamic Explanation of the Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept Disparity

w16449 Pamela Jakiela
Edward Miguel
Vera L. te Velde

You've Earned It: Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences

w16448 David Neumark
Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies

w16360 Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price

Auctions with Resale When Private Values Are Uncertain: Evidence from the Lab and Field

w16343 Sylvain Chassang
Gerard Padro i Miquel
Erik Snowberg

Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments

w16325 Gary Charness
Peter Kuhn
Marie-Claire Villeval

Competition and the Ratchet Effect

w16319 Omar Al-Ubaydli
John A. List
Michael K. Price

The Nature of Excess: Using Randomized Treatments to Investigate Price Dynamics

w16315 Alessandra Casella
Aniol Llorente-Saguer
Thomas R. Palfrey

Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes

w16298 Pascaline Dupas
Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment

w16238 James J. Heckman
Seong Hyeok Moon
Rodrigo Pinto
Peter A. Savelyev
Adam Yavitz

Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence From the HighScope Perry Preschool Program

w16187 Bruce I. Carlin
Shimon Kogan

Trading Complex Assets

w16062 John A. List
Imran Rasul

Field Experiments in Labor Economics

w16038 John A. List
Michael S. Haigh

Investment under Uncertainty: Testing the Options Model with Professional Traders

w16036 Jonathan E. Alevy
John List
Wiktor Adamowicz

How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Non-Market Valuation? An Example from the Preference Reversal Literature

w16018 Benjamin Feigenberg
Erica M. Field
Rohini Pande

Building Social Capital Through MicroFinance

w15967 Astrid Dannenberg
Andreas Lange
Bodo Sturm

On the Formation of Coalitions to Provide Public Goods - Experimental Evidence from the Lab

w15961 John J. Horton
David G. Rand
Richard J. Zeckhauser

The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market

w15913 Gary Charness
Peter J. Kuhn

Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

w15707 Francine D. Blau
Janet M. Currie
Rachel T.A. Croson
Donna K. Ginther

Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial

w15701 John A. List
Sally Sadoff
Mathis Wagner

So you want to run an experiment, now what? Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Optimal Experimental Design

w15654 Nicole M. Baran
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game


2009
w15623 Tanjim Hossain
John A. List

The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations

w15610 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List
Sally E. Sadoff

Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

w15609 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List
David H. Reiley
Jr.

What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments

w15559 Ernesto Dal Bó
Pedro Dal Bó

"Do the Right Thing:" The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation

w15543 Nicholas E. Burger
Charles D. Kolstad

Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty

w15453 John List
Charles Mason

Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?

w15420 John A. List
The Economics of Open Air Markets

w15396 Hongbin Cai
Yuyu Chen
Hanming Fang
Li-An Zhou

Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

w15323 Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

w15280 Michael Kremer
Jessica Leino
Edward Miguel
Alix Peterson Zwane

Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions

w15064 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

w15016 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

w15006 Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth
M. Utku Ünver

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

w14941 Andreas Lange
Andrew Stocking

Charitable Memberships, Volunteering, and Discounts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment

w14896 Guido W. Imbens
Better LATE Than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009)

w14859 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

w14707 Pascaline Dupas
Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

w14705 Thomas S. Dee
Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete

w14690 Angus S. Deaton
Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development


2008
w14618 Clayton Featherstone
Muriel Niederle

Ex Ante Efficiency in School Choice Mechanisms: An Experimental Investigation

w14559 Michael A. Spencer
Stephen K. Swallow
Jason F. Shogren
John A. List

Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision

w14501 Ernst Fehr
Oliver D. Hart
Christian Zehnder

Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence

w14487 Alessandra Casella
Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

w14406 Jessica Cohen
Pascaline Dupas

Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment

w14356 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

w14319 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w14270 Christopher F. Chabris
David Laibson
Carrie L. Morris
Jonathon P. Schuldt
Dmitry Taubinsky

Individual Laboratory-Measured Discount Rates Predict Field Behavior

w14115 Claudia M. Landeo
Kathryn E. Spier

Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

w14103 Alessandra Casella
Shuky Ehrenberg
Andrew Gelman
Jie Shen

Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections: A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

w13999 Pedro Dal Bó
Andrew Foster
Louis Putterman

Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy

w13961 Armin Falk
David Huffman
W. Bentley MacLeod

Institutions and Contract Enforcement

w13923 Muriel Niederle
Carmit Segal
Lise Vesterlund

How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

w13922 Muriel Niederle
Alexandra H. Yestrumskas

Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions

w13891 Joshua Aizenman
Kenneth Kletzer

The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"

w13865 Jay Bhattacharya
Adam Isen

On Inferring Demand for Health Care in the Presence of Anchoring, Acquiescence, and Selection Biases

w13728 Daniel Rondeau
John A. List

Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity:Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

w13727 Uri Gneezy
Kenneth L. Leonard
John A. List

Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

w13718 Gordon Dahl
Stefano DellaVigna

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?


2007
w13516 Hongbin Cai
Yuyu Chen
Hanming Fang

Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

w13420 Stefano DellaVigna
Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field

w13309 Daniel J. Benjamin
James J. Choi
A. Joshua Strickland

Social Identity and Preferences

w13300 Paul Glewwe
Michael Kremer
Sylvie Moulin

Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya

t0341 Howard Kunreuther
Gabriel Silvasi
Eric T. Bradlow
Dylan Small

Deterministic and Stochastic Prisoner's Dilemma Games: Experiments in Interdependent Security

w13247 Nava Ashraf
James Berry
Jesse M. Shapiro

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

w13219 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

w13135 Stephen Leider
Markus M. Möbius
Tanya Rosenblat
Quoc-Anh Do

Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks: How Much is A Friend Worth?

w13072 Glenn W. Harrison
John A. List

Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse

w12992 John A. List
Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data

w12976 Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey Carpenter
Lorenz Goette
Kristen Monaco
Aldo Rustichini
Kay Porter

Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

w12931 Jeffrey R. Kling
Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments


2006
t0333 Esther Duflo
Rachel Glennerster
Michael Kremer

Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

w12390 Ginger Zhe Jin
Andrew Kato
John A. List

That's News to Me! Information Revelation in Professional Certification Markets

w12338 Dean Karlan
John A. List

Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence From a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

w12097 John A. List
Friend or Foe? A Natural Experiment of the Prisoner's Dilemma

w12063 Uri Gneezy
John A. List

Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments

w12060 Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

w12041 Edward Lazear
Ulrike Malmendier
Roberto Weber

Sorting, Prices, and Social Preferences


2005
w11892 Marianne Bertrand
Dean Karlin
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Jonathan Zinman

What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

w11786 Gary Charness
Peter Kuhn

Pay Inequality, Pay Secrecy, and Effort: Theory and Evidence

w11725 Eric Bettinger
Robert Slonim

Using Experimental Economics to Measure the Effects of a Natural Educational Experiment on Altruism

w11674 Alessandra Casella
Thomas Palfrey
Raymond Riezman

Minorities and Storable Votes

w11616 John A. List
The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions

w11611 Craig Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

w11474 Muriel Niederle
Lise Vesterlund

Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?


2004
w10971 Michael Kremer
Edward Miguel
Rebecca Thornton

Incentives to Learn


2003
t0295 Robert A. Moffitt
The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research: A Perspective from Evaluations of Reforms of Social Welfare Programs

w9982 Alessandra Casella
Andrew Gelman
Thomas R. Palfrey

An Experimental Study of Storable Votes

w9736 John A. List
Neoclassical Theory Versus Prospect Theory: Evidence from the Marketplace


2000
w7729 Alvin E. Roth
Axel Ockenfels

Last Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Internet


1999
w7216 Edward L. Glaeser
David Laibson
Jose A. Scheinkman
Christine L. Soutter

What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

w6982 Orley Ashenfelter
David Ashmore
Olivier Deschenes

Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States


1998
w6699 James Heckman
Hidehiko Ichimura
Jeffrey Smith
Petra Todd

Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data

w6542 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith

Evaluating the Welfare State


1997
w6105 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith

The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence from the National JTPA Study


1995
t0184 James J. Heckman
Randomization as an Instrumental Variable


1994
t0170 Bruce D. Meyer
Natural and Quasi- Experiments in Economics


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