14.11 Putting Social Sciences to the Test: Field Experiments in Economics, Spring 2006
Author(s)
Autor, David
Duflo, Esther
Alternative Title
Putting Social Sciences to the Test: Field Experiments in Economics
Date Issued
June 2006
Abstract
14.11 is a new class on the topic of field (that is, 'in situ') and laboratory experiments in the social sciences - both what these experiments have taught and can teach us and how to conduct them.
Subjects
racial discrimination
public health and persuasion
incentives
gender differences in economic environments
intrinsic motivation and fairness
educational quality
corruption
learning and social effects
housing experiments
voting behavior and political economy
jury advocacy
causal inference
internal and external threats
clustering
standard errors
randomization
statistical inference with multiple outcomes
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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