Educational research indicates that error reflection, especially reflection on incorrect examples, has a positive effect on knowledge acquisition. The benefit of ...

Talking Points Memo’s Dylan Scott broke a story about a political science field experiment gone somewhat awry: Political scientists from two of the nation’s most highly respected universities, usually ...

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The researchers wanted to find out if there were biases in how managers evaluate their employees’ ideas. They conducted a field experiment in a large multinational technology company where they tested ...

Field experiments offer powerful tests of causality in real-world settings. They have high validity—both internal and external—and require smaller inferential leaps than observational or laboratory ...

If you’ve played Candy Crush, flown on United Airlines, or taken an Uber or Lyft, you’ve been in one of Prof. John List’s experiments without even knowing it. List has revolutionized economics ...

Bernstein, S., A. Korteweg, and K. Laws. "Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment." Journal of Finance 72, no. 2 (April 2017 ...

Evidence from a large-scale Field Experiment Abstract We estimate the causal effect of carbon footprint labels on individual food choices and quantify potential carbon emission reductions, using data ...