The Summer Institute on Field Experiments

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!

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.

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.

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/

Making The A, B And C-Suite Work Distinguishes These Executives - The NonProfit Times 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...

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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

Economics study finds volume discounts don’t increase profitability for video games

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."

Virgin Atlantic just used behavioral science to ‘nudge’ its pilots into using less fuel. It worked The research, by driving lower fuel use, prevented the emission of over 21,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.