14.11 Putting Social Sciences to the Test: Field Experiments in Economics, Spring 2006

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Autor, David; Duflo, Esther
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Putting Social Sciences to the Test: Field Experiments in Economics
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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.
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2006-06
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151187
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14.11-Spring2006
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14.11
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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
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