An NBER conference, "Economics of Field Experiments," took place in Cambridge on April 1011. Research Associates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:
Judith Gueron, MDRC, "The Politics and Practice of Social Experiments: Seeds of a Revolution"
Rachel Glennerster, MIT, "The Practicalities of Running Randomized Evaluations: Partnerships, Measurement, Ethics, and Transparency"
Abhijit Banerjee; Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University; and Erik Snowberg, California Institute of Technology and NBER, "Decision Theoretic Approaches to Experiment Design and External Validity"
Duncan Simester, MIT, "Field Experiments in Marketing"
Frederico Finan, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER; Benjamin A. Olken, MIT and NBER; Rohini Pande, Harvard University and NBER, "Government Workers in Developing Countries"
Alan S. Gerber, Yale University and NBER, and Donald Green, Columbia University, "Field Experiments on Voter Mobilization: An Overview of a Burgeoning Literature"
Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University and NBER, and Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER, "Health, Health Care, and Health Behavior in Developing Countries"
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego, and NBER, "Field Experiments in Education in Developing Countries"
Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Harvard University and NBER, "Education in Developed Countries"
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley, and Tavneet Suri, MIT and NBER, "Agriculture in Developing Economies"
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER, and Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles, and NBER, "Social Experiments in the Labor Market"
Uri Gneezy, University of California, San Diego, and Alex Imas, Carnegie Mellon University, "Lab in the Field: Measuring Preferences in the Wild"
Elizabeth Levy Paluck and Eldar Shafir, Princeton University, "The Psychology of Construal in the Design of Field Experiments"
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER, and Esther Duflo, "Field Experiments on Discrimination"
Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER, and Dean Karlanv, Yale University and NBER, "Designing Anti-Poverty Programs: Experimental Lessons"
William Congdon, ideas42; Jeffrey R. Kling, Congressional Budget Office and NBER; Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER; and Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER, "Social Policy: Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations"