Showing posts with label experiments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experiments. Show all posts
Thursday, April 3, 2025

A user's guide to Experimental Economics, by Muriel Niederle

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 Here's a magisterial handbook chapter, by Muriel Niederle Experiments: Why, How, and A Users Guide for Producers as well as Consumers ...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Kevin Sontheimer (1938-2025)

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 My old friend and colleague Kevin Sontheimer has died.  He was a great leader of Pitt’s economics department when I was there, not just w...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Summer School in Experimental and Behavioral Economic, University of Crete, July 2025

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 Here's an announcement of a summer school in experimental economics this summer in Crete We are delighted to announce the  2nd Summer...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Informed consent and compensation for clinical trial participants (Ambuehl, Ockenfels and Stewart in REStat)

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 Here's the latest in a series of papers that suggests that participants who are attracted to e.g. clinical trials by the pay may be tho...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics invites papers from Ph.D. students

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I recently received this email, inviting papers from PhD students: " I am writing you as Editor of the Journal of Comments and Replicat...
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...