Optimally generate policy-based evidence before scaling

JA List - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Social scientists have increasingly turned to the experimental method to understand human
behaviour. One critical issue that makes solving social problems difficult is scaling up the …

The dozen things experimental economists should do (more of)

E Czibor, D Jimenez‐Gomez… - Southern Economic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
What was once broadly viewed as an impossibility—learning from experimental data in
economics—has now become commonplace. Governmental bodies, think tanks, and …

How can experiments play a greater role in public policy? Twelve proposals from an economic model of scaling

O Al-Ubaydli, MS Lee, JA List… - Behavioural public …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Policymakers are increasingly turning to insights gained from the experimental method as a
means to inform large-scale public policies. Critics view this increased usage as premature …

Experimental and behavioral economics to inform agri-environmental programs and policies

LH Palm-Forster, KD Messer - Handbook of agricultural economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Agricultural and applied economists have begun routinely using behavioral and
experimental economics tools to answer important questions about agri-environmental …

The entitlement effect in the ultimatum game–does it even exist?

EE Demiral, J Mollerstrom - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the seminal paper of Hoffman et al.(1994), an entitlement effect is believed to exist in
the Ultimatum Game, in the sense that proposers who have earned their role (as opposed to …

How can experiments play a greater role in public policy? 12 proposals from an economic model of scaling

O Al-Ubaydli, MS Lee, JA List… - University of Chicago …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Policymakers are increasingly turning to insights gained from the experimental method as a
means to inform large scale public policies. Critics view this increased usage as premature …

Curbing Carbon: An Experiment on Uncertainty and Information About CO 2 Emissions

D Pace, JJ van der Weele - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We investigate how consumers respond to uncertainty about CO 2 emission size. In an
incentivized online experiment, participants can acquire a valuable good that emits an …

Statistical significance and the replication crisis in the social sciences

A Dreber, M Johannesson - Oxford research encyclopedia of …, 2019 - oxfordre.com
The recent “replication crisis” in the social sciences has led to increased attention on what
statistically significant results entail. There are many reasons for why false positive results …

A new mechanism to alleviate the crises of confidence in science-with an application to the public goods game

Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few
decades. One feature of the new research landscape is the nature and extent to which …

Coordination and free-riding problems in the provision of multiple public goods

A Takeuchi, E Seki - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023 - Elsevier
This study considers the twin problems of free riding and coordination failure, which are
prevalent in the provision of multiple public goods with diminishing marginal returns …