Field Experiments
*Levitt, Steven D. and John A. List, “What do
Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences tell us about the Real
World,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, (2007), 21 (2): 153-174.
Harrison, Glenn and
John A. List.
"Field Experiments," Journal of Economic Literature
(2004), XLII (December): 1013-1059.
*Andersen, Steffen,
Erwin Bulte, Uri Gneezy, and John A. List, “Do Women
Supply More Public Goods than Men? Preliminary Experimental Evidence from
Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies,” American Economic Review,
(2008), 98(2-P&P), pp. 376-381.
Levitt, Steven D. and John A. List, “Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future,"
European
Economic Review, forthcoming, 2009.
Deaton, Angus, “Instruments of development:
Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic
development,” NBER Working Papers 14690, 2009
Heckman,
J. and S. Urzúa, “Comparing IV with Structural
Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify.” January 2009
Imbens
,Guido
W. “Better LATE
Than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua” (2009)
Charitable giving and
All pay auctions
Schram, A and S. Onderstal “Bidding to Give: An
Experimental Comparison of Auctions for Charity,” International Economic Review, Vol. 50,
No. 2, pp. 431-457, May 2009
Carpenter, Jeffrey, Jessica Holmes and Peter Hans
Matthews.
“Charity auctions: a field Experiment,” The Economic Journal, Vol. 118,
No. 525, pp. 92-113, January 2008
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Engers, Maxim and Brian McManus. “Charity
auctions,” International Economic Review, Vol. 48, August 2007 Goeree,
Jacob K., Emiel Maasland,
A. Sander Onderstal and John L. Turner. 2005. “How
(not) to raise money,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol.
113: 897-918. Benz,
Matthias and Stephan Meier “Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field?
– Evidence from Donations”, Experimental Economics 11(3), 2008:
268-281. Meier,
Stephan “Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching
Donations in a Field Experiment”, Journal of the European Economic
Association, 5(6), 2007: 1203-1222. Eckel, C., & Grossman, P. (2003). Rebates and matching:
does how we subsidize charitable contributions matter? Journal of Public
Economics, 8(3), 681–701. |
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Eckel, C., & Grossman, P. (2008, forthcoming). Subsidizing
charitable contributions: a field test comparing matching and rebate
subsidies. Experimental Economics. |
Karlan, D., & List, J. (2007). Does
price matter in charitable giving? Evidence from a
large-scale natural field experiment. American Economic Review, 97(5),
1774–1793.
List, John, “ Introduction to field experiments in
economics with applications to the economics of charity” Experimental Economics, 11(3), 2008
Discrimination
Fershtman, C., and U. Gneezy
“Discrimination in a Segmented Society: An Experimental Approach,” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 2001, 351-377.
Bertrand, M and S. Mullainathan “Are Emily and
Brendan More Employable than Latoya and Tyrone? Evidence on
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market from a Large Randomized Experiment,”
with Marianne Bertrand, September 2004, American Economic Review.
List, John A. “The Nature and Extent of
Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field,” Quarterly
Journal of Economics (2004), 119(1): 49-89.
Castillo,
M., R. Petrie, M. Torero, and L. Vesterlund “Gender Differences in Bargaining:
A Field Experiment”
Endowment Effect
List, J.A. “Does
Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies?,” QJE
(2003)
Min max
Levitt, Steven D.,
John A. List, and David Reiley, “What Happens in the
Field Stays in the Field: Professionals Do Not Play Minimax
in Laboratory Experiments,” Econometrica,
forthcoming, 2009.
Palacios-Huerta
and Volij (2008) “Experientia
Docet: Professionals Play Minimax
in Laboratory Experiments,” Econometrica.
Professionals
Alevy, Haigh, and List
(2006) “Information Cascades: Evidence From A Field
Experiment With Financial Market Professionals,” The Journal of Finance.
Anderson
and Shunder (1995) “Professional Traders As Intuitive Bayesians,” Organizational Behavior And Human Decision Processes.
Burns
(1985) “Experience And Decision Making: A Comparison
Of Students And Businessmen In A Simulated Progressive Auction,” in Research In Experimental Economics.
Cadsby and Maynes (1998) “Choosing
Between A Socially Efficient And Free-Riding
Equilibrium: Nurses versus Economics And Business Students,” Journal of Economic Behavior &
Organization.
Carpenter
and Seki (2005) “Do Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay,” IZA DP
No. 1697.
Cooper,
Kagel, Lo, and Gu (1999)
“Gaming Against Managers In Incentive Systems: Experimental Results with
Chinese Students and Chinese Managers,” The
American Economic Review.
DeJong,
Forsythe, and Uecker (1988) “A Note On The Use Of
Businessmen As Subjects In Sealed Offer Markets,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Dyer,
Kagel, and Levin (1989) “A Comparison Of Naive And
Experience Bidders In Common Value Offer Auctions: A Laboratory Analysis,” The Economic Journal.
Fehr
and List (2004) “The Hidden Costs And Returns Of
Incentives -- Trust And Trustworthiness Among CEOs,” Journal of the European Economic Association.
Haigh, Michael and List,
John A. “Do Professional Traders Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion? An
Experimental Analysis,” Journal of Finance, (2005), 60 (1):
523-534.
Kagel,
John H. (1987) “Chapter 6: Economics according to the rats (and pigeons too):
what have we learned and what can we hope to learn?” in Laboratory experimentation in economics: six points of view, edited
by Alvin E. Roth (up to 6.2.2).
List, John A. and
Michael Haigh. “A Simple Test of Expected Utility
Theory Using Professional Traders,” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science (2005), 102(3): 945-948.
Montmarquette, Rulliere,
Villeval, and Zeiliger (2004) “Redesigning Teams and
Incentives In A Merger: An Experiment With Managers
And Students,” Management Science.
Potters
and van Winden (2000) “Professionals And Students In A Lobbying Experiment Professional Rules Of Conduct
And Subject Surrogacy,” Journal
of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Trust and Gift exchange
Gneezy, Uri, and John
A. List.
“Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor
Markets Using Field Experiments,” Econometrica,
(2006), September, 74(5): 1365-1384.
Levitt, Steven D. and John A. List, “Homo economicus evolves,” Science, Feburary 15, 2008, 319(5865), pp. 909-910
List, John A., “The Behavioralist
Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual
Transactions,” Journal of Political Economy, (2006), 114(1): 1-37.
Matching
Mechanisms in the lab
Kagel, John H. and
A.E. Roth, "The dynamics of reorganization in matching markets: A
laboratory experiment motivated by a natural experiment," Quarterly Journal
of Economics, February, 2000, 201-35.)
C. Nicholas McKinney,
Muriel Niederle, and Alvin E. Roth, “The collapse of a medical labor
clearinghouse,” American Economic Review, 95, 3, June, 2005,878-889.
Y.
Chen and T. Sönmez "School Choice: An
Experimental Study," Journal of Economic Theory, 127 (2006): 202-231
Niederle, Muriel and
Alvin E. Roth, “Market Culture: How Norms Governing Exploding Offers Affect
Market Performance,” American
Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2009, 2,1,
199-219.