The Summer Institute on Field Experiments

07/15/2018

SIFE is taking a break this summer, but our next event is being planned and we will keep you updated. Thank you for your continuing interest in the Summer Institute on Field Experiments!

07/14/2017

Thank you to everyone that took part in this year's Price Theory Summer Camp and The Summer Institute on Field Experiments! Watch for the joint session keynote lecture videos from Steve Levitt and John List, coming soon.

03/02/2017

The third annual Summer Institute on Field Experiments (SIFE) returns to the University of Chicago July 9-13, 2017. SIFE partners the brightest young scholars in the world with organizations interested in using field experiments and behavioral economics to answer their most compelling business questions. By participating in SIFE, scholars gain training in the field experiment method and connections with business and government partners. Organizations gain research-based insights into how they could revolutionize their policy development, business processes, or charitable programming. Visit the SIFE website at http://tinyurl.com/SIFE2017 for more information and researcher/organization application forms.

08/10/2016

Congratulations to Department of Economics chairman John List, named The NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50 Innovator for the second year in a row! List’s "field study of philanthropic behavior is catching the eyes of academics and practitioners," according to NPT vice president and editorial director Paul Clolery, while the "depth of [his] research and writing has created a buzz particularly regarding high capacity donors." http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/making-b-c-suite-work-distinguishes-executives/

If you ask nonprofit executives the one thing about which they feel certain during 2016 the answer surely would be uncertainty. Here’s the list: A presidential election that probably will resemble Ali v. Frazier I; Bond and stock exchanges moving inversely to their historic norms; and, Rapid and som...

07/21/2016

Today concludes the 2016 sessions of The Summer Institute on Field Experiments; a warm thank you to the Laura and John Arnold Foundation for making the Institute possible with their generous support, and to all of our scholars, participants, and staff that made this year's event a wonderful success!

07/21/2016

We're looking forward to a host of exciting new collaborative partnerships between scholars and organizations from this year's Summer Institute on Field Experiments!

07/18/2016

Views from first full day of the Summer Institute on Field Experiments: Brent Hickman and Daniel Hedblom presenting “Combining Structural Modeling and Field Experiments in Research Design" to our Scholars, while Anya Samek discusses "The Nuts and Bolts of Experiments" with our Practitioners.

07/18/2016

Steve Levitt, today's keynote presentation at SIFE2016; later today, sessions with Anya Samek, Brent Hickman and Daniel Hedblom.

07/18/2016

The Summer Institute on Field Experiments is now in progress! Today's sessions include a panel discussion with Alain Cohn, Michael Price, and Ryan Johnson, moderated by John List; scholar sessions on "12 Things I Wish Experimental Economists Would Do More Of," with SIFE 2016 organizer and keynote speaker John List and "Combining Structural Modeling and Field Experiments in Research Design" with Brent Hickman and Daniel Hedblom; practitioner sessions on "Experiments with Organizations: Lessons from an Investment Firm," with Erik Johnson of Morningstar and "Nuts and Bolts of Experiments" with Anya Samek - and today's keynote talk presented by Steve Levitt. SIFE 2016 is made possible by the generous support of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

07/15/2016

Extending a warm welcome to all the scholars and participants arriving this weekend for the Summer Institute on Field Experiments! Keynote speakers are John List and Steve Levitt, with guest speakers Omar Al-Ubaydli, Alec Brandon, Luigi Butera, Alain Cohn, Daniel Hedblom, Brent Hickman, Erik Johnson, Ryan Johnson, Jeffrey A. Livingston, Robert Metcalfe, Michael Price, Sally Sadoff, and Anya Samek. We look forward to an outstanding slate of sessions creating innovative solutions to business and nonprofit organizations' challenges.

07/08/2016

Using , UChicago Economics' John List and Steve Levitt discovered something unusual about gamers' virtual goods purchasing patterns. Here's what they learned: https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2016/07/08/economics-study-finds-volume-discounts-dont-increase-profitability-video-games

06/28/2016

WaPo: Airline pilot intervention so cost-effective, it "outperforms every other reported carbon abatement technology of which we are aware.” Read how Gosnell, Metcalfe, and List's new research could improve fuel efficiency and reduce air travel's "carbon footprint."

The research, by driving lower fuel use, prevented the emission of over 21,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.