Course description The course “Field Experiments” is designed for Bachelor students who are interested in how field experiments, as a research methodology, can help to answer important economic questions. Knowledge in experimental economics is a plus but not a prerequisite. A short introduction into experimental methods will be given in the lecture. The course combines a paper-based lecture discussing recent economic field experiments with an interactive tutorial, in which students discuss a recently published research paper and present design ideas for experiments. The course discusses how incentive structures affect effort provisions, covers questions from labor markets, sheds light on self-control problems and health related issues, and discusses incentives for non-monetary and monetary donations. Further, the course covers recent field experiments in developing countries and shows how field experimentation can be used to study questions from political economy. The tutorial aims at providing skills for the careful design and implementation of field experiments. There will be two blocked tutorials and a team meeting. For the first blocked tutorial, teams of 3-6 students will read a research paper and develop ideas for their own research question. These ideas are then pitched in the first tutroial. For the second blocked tutorial, student teams need to prepare their own original experimental design and pre-analysis plan for a field experiment (which will be discussed before in bilateral team meetings with the lecturer). More information on how the tutorials are structured will be given in the first lecture. The final grade is based on the written (online) exam, BUT: Tutorial presentations, and in particular the development of an own experimental design will help students to be well prepared for the exam. Exam date (Online): July 20, 11.00 - 12.00 General literature
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- Trainer/in: Simeon Schudy