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John August List is an American economist known for his work in establishing field experiments as a tool in empirical… more

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The econ PhD market will be difficult this year. The exact same thing happened when I went on the market years ago: I sent out 150 applications...and got 1 interview! Then I wrote a paper about it! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

Both sides of the market responded. Is this happening now too?
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Last night's conversation about AI's strain on our energy grid led us to the classic tragedy of the commons problem. When asked what single change could help, my answer was immediate: "Put women in charge." And I have some field experimental evidence to back it up! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...
Do women supply more public goods than men? Preliminary expe
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Why? Everyone had near-perfect quant scores—no variance to predict anything. Verbal scores actually differentiated candidates, and writing ability turns out to matter for research.

Please keep this between us because I want to maintain our competitive advantage and I want to avoid Campbells Law!
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Just chatted with some pre-docs heading to the grad school market. They all agreed: quant GRE matters for admissions, verbal doesn't. So they don't try on verbal.

Here's what I learned doing admissions at UChicago
(2007-12): verbal scores had the most predictive power for job market paper quality.
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(How) should businesses apoligize when they screw up? Field experiment on Uber rides by Halperin et al suggests the best form of apology is to include a coupon for a future trip, while just apologies—especially repeated—may backfire:

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Just out in the NBER.....identification of a structural model of human capital skill formation amongst adolescents using a field experiment.

www.nber.org/papers/w34274
Why Don’t Struggling Students Do Their Homework? Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation
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"of laboratory and field experiments. It provides a sophisticated roadmap for designing experiments that are both internally valid and externally meaningful—making it essential reading for graduate students and applied researchers alike." ~Ernst Fehr
www.amazon.com/dp/022682067...
Experimental Economics: Theory and Practice
Experimental Economics: Theory and Practice: 9780226820675: Economics Books @ Amazon.com
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Quite happy to report that Blurb #2 is in for my new Experimental Economics textbook. From none other than the indomitable Ernst Fehr!

"This advanced textbook offers a rigorous and comprehensive exploration of the methodological design..
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Why Don't Struggling Students Do Their Homework? In a new study we use a field experiment to identify a structural model of learning.

We find that low productivity, not low motivation, is the stronger predictor of academic struggles. Study is available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/framed...
Why Don't Struggling Students Do Their Homework? Disentangli
Using field-experimental data (study-time tracking and randomized incentives), we identify a structural model of learning. Student effort is influenced by external costs/benefits and unobserved hetero
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Great stuff @singhabhi.bsky.social!
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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · Sep 5
Big picture: `science of scaling’ matters enormously for welfare.

Unlike medicine, social programs need iterative adaptation & testing beyond finding "what works" in small pilots.

Without this, as
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notes, “we are performing efficacy tests on steroids”. 16/16"
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