Advances with Field Experiments

The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce the Advances with Field Experiments conference returns to UChicago September 23-24, 2020. This year's keynote speakers are Oriana Baniera, The London School of Economics and Political Science; Larry Katz, Harvard University; and Ulrike Malmendier, UCal Berkeley. The conference is organized by John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, and Robert Metcalfe, Boston Questrom School of Business. Learn more at our AFE website - https://economics.uchicago.edu/content/afe-2020 - and apply to present here: https://tinyurl.com/afe2020presenter.

The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is pleased to announce the Advances with Field Experiments conference returns to UChicago September 12-13, 2019. This year's keynote speakers are James Andreoni, University of California at San Diego; Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics; and Michael Price, University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business. The conference is organized by John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and Robert Metcalfe, Boston Questrom School of Business. Learn more and apply as a presenter today at https://economics.uchicago.edu/content/advances-field-experiments-2019

This year's Advances with Field Experiments conference will be held October 5-6 in Boston, MA, at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. Our keynotes will be Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Roland Fryer, Harvard University; and Catherine Wolfram, Berkeley Haas School of Business. The conference is organized by John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago, and Robert Metcalfe, Boston University Questrom School of Business. Learn more and register today at http://tinyurl.com/AFE2018

Steve Levitt: "My new advice to friends, students, and self: if you can't decide what to do, make the change" Freakonomics

keynote Steve Levitt discusses the results of his recent "Heads or Tails" Freakonomics experiment, which asked thousands of participants to make a major life change (or not) based on a coin toss. Did people follow the coin toss results? Are "changers" happier than non-changers? Read his NBER working paper at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w22487

Michael Greenstone of Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago - EPIC and Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics delivers tonight's keynote at The Quadrangle Club at the University of Chicago keynote:“Is Off-Grid Solar the Answer for Rural Electrification? Experimental Evidence from ’s Surprisingly Competitive Retail Power Market”

The Advances with Field Experiments conference returns to the University of Chicago on September 14-15, 2017! Once again, we will gather a group of academics to present the best and most innovative new work using field experiments to address economic questions. All types of field experiments, including natural, framed, and artefactual field experiments, are encouraged. In particular, we strongly encourage Ph.D. students to participate. This year's keynote speakers will be Hunt Allcott, Michael Greenstone, and Steve Levitt. Learn more, and submit your presenter application form today at tinyurl.com/AFE2017

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The Advances with Field Experiments 2016 speaker, keynote, and session schedule (preliminary) is now available at: https://economics.uchicago.edu/afe2016

John List, Ali Hortaçsu, et al. find that "experience reduces the emotional pain tied to selling objects:" https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2016/08/01/trading-changes-how-brain-processes-selling-decisions

Trading changes how brain processes selling decisions Experience in trading changes how the human brain evaluates the sale of goods, muting a well-established economic bias known as the endowment effect, according to researchers at the University of Chicago.