Showing posts with label experiments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experiments. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2024

If I don't do it someone else will: markets and morals

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  Here's a paper reporting an experiment that suggests that people are more willing to ignore the negative externalities they impose on ...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Income inequality, risk, and repugnance by Hauge, Kverndokk, and Lange

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Two recent papers by   Karen Hauge ,  Snorre Kverndokk , and  Andreas Lange  report on the roles played by inequality and risk in causing re...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Behavioral market design (in the JEP)

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 The Fall 2024  Journal of Economic Perspective s has three papers on behavioral market design: Symposium: Behavioral Incentive Compatibi...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement (Chan and Roth in the JPE)

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  Here's a new paper (in final form, online ahead of print) on how organ transplants are regulated.  The paper uses an experiment to mak...
Friday, September 6, 2024

Stanford celebrates Susan Athey

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  This  from Stanford Report: What motivates Susan Athey . The economist weighs in on incremental innovation, data-driven impact, and how ec...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Incentives matter for getting participation in clinical trials by low income households

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  Here's a study that casts some light (via a randomized experiment) on the importance of incentives to get representative participation...
Friday, August 9, 2024

Designing Complex Experiments, by Susan Athey and Guido Imbens

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 Here's a tantalizing set of slides about online experiments Designing Complex Experiments: Some Recent Developments SUSAN ATHEY AND GU...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Danny Kahneman, remembered by Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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 Daniel Kahneman, 1934-2024: Nobel Prize Winner & CASBS Legend "Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel laureate, professor emeritus of psycholo...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Don't take "No" for an answer in deceased organ donor registration (a paper forthcoming after ten+ years)

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 Here's a paper reporting a "field in the lab" experiment with actual organ donor registrations, that took over ten years to g...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Congratulations to ESA Fellows

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  The Economic Science Association (ESA) has decided that the stock of old experimenters is sufficient to start naming fellows.  (I heard of...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Covid vaccine boosters: promoting uptake is hard

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  A recent study published in Nature shows that inexpensive nudges (to get Covid revaccinations) can have small but measurable effects (abou...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

A proposal to assess public opinion in Europe on compensation for organ donors

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  Here's a paper that proposes doing an experiment. Concerning compensation for organ donors. In Europe.  With the hope of influencing p...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Fairness, efficiency and strategy proofness in assigning indivisible objects: two new papers

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 Here are two new papers on the burgeoning literature of matching people to scarce indivisible resources. First, an experiment by Claudia Ce...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Experimental Economics sessions at Stanford (SITE) this summer

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Here's the preliminary program for this summer's experimental economics at Stanford.  Session 13: Experimental Economics Thu, Aug 22...
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance, by Robert Stüber

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 Here's a nice experiment in the EJ: Robert Stüber, Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance: a Framed Field Experiment , The Economic Journ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Frans de Waal (1948-2024)

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  The eminent primatologist Frans de Waal has passed away. Here's a memoriam from Emory University: Emory primatologist Frans de Waal re...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

The ethics of field experiments in Economics, in the Financial Times

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  The Financial Times has a column about the recent twitter (X) discussion concerning our paper  Social Media and Job Market Success: A Fiel...