ADVANCES WITHFIELD EXPERIMENTS

CONFERENCESAIEH HALL FOR ECONOMICS

SEP. 14-15, 2017

Keynote SpeakersKEYNOTE SPEAKERS

HUNT ALLCOTT

MICHAEL GREENSTONE

STEVE LEVITT

Is an Associate Professor of Economics at New York University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics. Allcott is an Affiliate of Poverty Action Lab, a network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty. Allcott is an applied microeconomist who studies topics in environmental and energy economics, industrial organization, public economics, behavioral economics, and development microeconomics. He uses a variety of tools, including both structural and reduced form econometrics, applied theory, and randomized field experiments.

Is the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School, University of Chicago; Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, and Director, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). He is an energy and environmental economist, whose research is focused on finding solutions to the global energy challenge that balance the goals of access to inexpensive and reliable energy that is critical for growth, while limiting environment damages and reducing the probability of disruptive climate change. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and an editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

Is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he directs the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. In 2004, Levitt was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, and in 2006, was named one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World.” He co-authored Freakonomics, which spent over 2 years on the New York Times Best Seller list. SuperFreakonomics, released in 2009, includes new research on topics from terrorism to prostitution to global warming. Levitt is also the co-author of the popular Freakonomics Blog.

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Conference OrganizersKeynote SpeakersORGANIZERS

JOHN LIST

ROBERT METCALFE

Recent years have seen an enormous increase and interest in academic research using experimental methods in the field to address questions across a broad range of topics in economics. Moreover, businesses and governments across many countries around the world are starting to appreciate the power that field experiments can have on the design of products, services, and policies.

The Advances with Field Experiments 2017 conference at the University of Chicago will gather a group of academics to present the best and most innovative new work using field experiments to address economic questions.

Is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. List has been at the forefront of environmental economics and has served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors for Environmental and Resource Economics. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and a University Fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. List is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on experimental economics.

Is an Assistant Professor of Markets, Public Policy, & Law at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. His research interests include the development and testing of price theory and behavioral theory using naturally occurring data and field experiments primarily with Fortune 500 companies, charitable organizations, and national governments. He is currently conducting research projects on energy, P2P markets, taxation, finance, healthcare, and education.

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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS CONFERENCE 2017

DAY 1 - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

8:00-8:25am Continental Breakfast SHFE 100X

8:25-8:40 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks John List (University of Chicago) and Robert Metcalfe (Boston University)

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8:40-9:40 am Keynote: Hunt Allcott (New York University) “Using Field Experiments for Policy Evaluation”

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9:40-9:45 Break SHFE 100X

9:45-10:45 am Session 1A

Session 1B

Parallel Sessions 1 Labor • Colin Sullivan (Wharton School) “Never Audit Again: A

Non-Deceptive Approach to Eliciting EmployerPreferences”

• David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh) “PersistentOverconfidence in the Workplace and the Role of BiasedMemory”

• Olga Stoddard (Brigham Young University) “The Effectsof Group Gender Composition on Group Performanceand Dynamics”

Digital/IO • Xiang Hui (MIT) “E-commerce Platforms and

International Trade: A Large-Scale Field Experiment”• Maryam Saeedi (CMU) “Certification, Reputation and

Entry: An Empirical Analysis”• Sanjog Misra (Chicago Booth) “Scalable Price Targeting”

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10:45-10:55 am Break SHFE 100X

10:55 am-12:15 pm Session 2A

Session 2B

Parallel Sessions 2 Health • David Molitor (UIUC) “Selection and Medical Spending in

Wellness Programs: Evidence from the Illinois WorkplaceWellness Study”

• Erez Yoeli (Yale) “Behavioral Insights PromoteTuberculosis Treatment Success in a Randomized ControlTrial”

• Irene Mussio (UMass Amherst) “Identity Priming toReduce Risk: a Flu Vaccination Field Experiment”

• Adam Sacarny (Columbia University) “ReducingInappropriate Prescribing: Evidence from a RandomizedIntervention in Medicare”

Education • Anne Boring (Erasmus University Rotterdam; Sciences

Po-LIEPP) “De-biasing Performance Evaluations:

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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS CONFERENCE 2017

DAY 1 - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

10:55 am-12:15 pm Session 2B

Evidence from a Field Experiment on Student Evaluations of Teaching”

• Catalina Franco (University of Michigan) “Biased Beliefs,Performance, and Effort: Experimental Evidence from aPilot in Colombia”

• Angelino Viceisza (Spelman College) “MetacognitiveAwareness and Academic Performance: A RandomizedField Experiment”

• An Le (University of Tokyo) “Individualized Self-learningProgram to Improve Primary Education: Evidence from aRandomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh”

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12:15-1:15 pm Lunch SHFE 100X

1:15-2:15 pm Session 3A

Session 3B

Parallel Sessions 3 Behavioral • Basil Halperin (Uber) “Toward an Understanding of the

Economics of Apologies: Theory and Evidence from aLarge Scale Natural Field Experiment”

• Paul Ferraro (Johns Hopkins University) “ApplyingBehavioral Economics to Policy and Program Design:Preferences for Choice Architecture and Reactions WhenSubjects are Aware of the Impact of Choice Architecture”

• Erte Xiao (Monash University) “Incentives to Persevere”

Public • Luigi Butera (University of Chicago) “An Economic

Approach to Alleviate the Crisis of Confidence in Science:With an Application to the Public Goods Game”

• Henry Schneider (Smith School of Business, Queen’sUniversity) “Forgetting and Heterogeneity in Task Delay:Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients”

• Sally Sadoff (University of California, San Diego) “TheEffect of Recipient Contribution on Support for SocialPrograms”

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2:15-2:25 pm Break SHFE 100X

2:25-3:25 pm Session 4A

Parallel Sessions 4 Environment & Energy • Kenneth Gillingham (Yale University) “Social Learning

and Solar Photovoltaic Adoption: Evidence from a FieldExperiment”

• Kelly Hellman (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)“Property Values and the Risk from an Oil Spill: TheEffects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in HillsboroughCounty”

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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS CONFERENCE 2017

DAY 1 - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

2:25-3:25 pm Session 4A

Session 4B

• Andrea La Nauze (University of Pittsburgh) “ AnExperimental Study of Monthly Electricity Demand(In)elasticity”

Education • Jeffrey Livingston (Bentley University) “Measuring

Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the TestItself”

• Sutanuka Roy (London School of Economics) “Do Socialor Economic Targeted Incentives Work? Evidence fromLarge Scale Randomized Controlled Trial In India”

• Juanna Joensen (University of Chicago) “AdolescentHuman Capital: Impacts of Skills and Information

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3:25-3:35 pm Break SHFE 100X

3:35-4:35 pm Session 5A

Session 5B

Parallel Sessions 5 Environmental & Energy • Florian Rundhammer (Georgia State University)

“Frequent Expenditure Information and ConsumerChoice: Experimental Evidence from Residential EnergyDemand”

• Gabriel Lade (Iowa State University) “Spillovers fromBehavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence fromWater and Energy Use”

• Natalia Czap (University of Michigan-Dearborn) “FieldExperiment on Encouraging Farmers’ Participation in theConservation Stewardship Program”

Microfinance • J. Michelle Brock (EBRD) “Incomplete information in

lending: Experimental evidence from Turkey”• Giorgia Barboni (Princeton University) “Repayment

Flexibility in Microfinance Contracts: Borrowers'Selection, Investment Decisions, and Lenders' Profit”

• Lisa Spantig (University of Munich) “The EndowmentEffect and Savings Decisions of the Poor”

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4:35-4:45 pm Break SHFE 100X

4:45-5:45 pm Session 6A

Parallel Sessions 6 Consumer Decision-Making • Tatiana Homonoff (New York University) “Does

Providing FICO Scores Influence Financial Behavior?Evidence from a Field Experiment”

• Wenyue Yang (Yale University) “Will Experience of theGreat Famine Discourage Chinese People From FutureInvestments?”

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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS CONFERENCE 2017

DAY 1 - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

4:45-5:45 pm Session 6A

Session 6B

• David Reiley (UC Berkeley) “Measuring ConsumerSensitivity to Audio Advertising” A Field Experiment onPandora Internet Radio”

Health • Scott Barkowski (Clemson University) “Physician

Response to Prices: Evidence from a Field Experiment”• Mariana Carrera (Case Western Reserve University)

“Making Plans to Go to the Gym”• Pradeep Chintagunta (Chicago Booth) “Leveraging

Patients’ Social Networks to Improve TuberculosisDetection in India: A Field Experiment”

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6:15-7:45 pm Keynote: Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago) “Is Off-Grid Solar the Answer for Rural Electrification? Experimental Evidence from India’s Surprisingly Competitive Retail Power Market”

Dinner

Quadrangle Club, 1155 E. 57th Street

8:00-9:00 pm Bonus Session: John List (University of Chicago) “The Science of Using Science: Scaling Field Experiments in Economics”

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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS CONFERENCE 2017

DAY 2 - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

8:00-8:30 am Continental Breakfast SHFE 100X

8:30-9:30 am Keynote: Steve Levitt (University of Chicago) “Heads or Tails: A Randomized Field Experiment on Big Life Decisions”

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9:30-10:50 am Session 7A

Session 7B

Parallel Sessions 7 Prosocial • David Reinstein (University of Exeter) “Conditional

Generosity and Uncertain Income: Field and LabEvidence”

• Bing Jiang (Virginia Military Institute) “Time Preferencesin Charitable Giving”

• Gert Pönitzsch (University of Heidelberg) “Pro-socialBehavior by Groups and Individuals: Evidence fromContributions to a Global Public Good”

• Claudia Schwirplies (University of Hamburg) “ProsocialPromises in the Marketplace: An Artefactual FieldExperiment”

Labor • Cody Cook (Uber) “The Gender Gap in the Gig Economy:

Evidence from Over One Million Uber Drivers”• Eszter Czibor (University of Chicago) “Are Entrepreneurs

Lone Wolves? An Experimental Analysis of Sorting IntoTeams ”

• Nick Zubanov (University of Konstanz) “Why DoEmployees (Not) Make Referrals?”

• Mira Fischer (University of Cologne) “Effects of Timingand Reference Frame of Feedback: Evidence from a FieldExperiment in Secondary Schools”

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10:50-11:00 am Break SHFE 100X

11:00 am-12:20 pm Session 8A

Parallel Sessions 8 Digital • Mike Menietti (Harvard University) “Role Models and

Gender Imbalance Online: Field Experimental Evidence”• David Ong (Peking University HSBC Business School)

“Hard to Get: The Scarcity of Women and theCompetition for High-Income Men in Chinese Cities”

• Serge Pajak (Université Paris-Sud) “Can Social MediaLead to Labor Market Discrimination? Evidence from aField Experiment”

• Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto) “WikipediaMatters”

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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS CONFERENCE 2017

DAY 2 - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Session 8B 11:00 am-12:20 pm

Labor • Nicolas Bottan (University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign) “Choosing Your Pond. Revealed-PreferenceEstimates of Relative Income Concerns”

• Kerstin Grosch (University of Goettingen) “ContractCompliance under Biased Expectations”

• Valentina Tartari (Copenhagen Business School)“Bridging the Gap: Network Activation and Mobilizationof Boundary-Spanners Across the Industry-AcademiaDivide”

• Fatemeh Momeni (University of Chicago) “Up FrontPayment: Pay a Little, or Don’t Pay at All”

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12:20-1:00 pm Lunch SHFE 146

1:00-2:00 pm Session 9A

Session 9B

Parallel Sessions 9 Behavioral • Luigi Butera (University of Chicago) “The Welfare Effects

of Social Recognition”• Giovanni Ponti (University of Alicante) “Is it Myopia or

Loss Aversion? Evidence from the Lab to the Field”• Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago) “From

Extreme to Mainstream: How Social Norms Unravel”

Education • Rebecca Thornton ( University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign) “The Impact of Teacher Effectiveness onStudent Learning in Africa”

• Priya Mukherjee (College of William and Mary) “Pricingof Private Education in India: Demand, Use, and Impact”

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2:00-2:10 pm Break SHFE 100X

2:10-3:10 pm Session 10A

Parallel Sessions 10 Labor • Andreas Leibbrandt (Monash University) “When Equal

Employment Opportunity Statements Backfire: Evidencefrom a Natural Field Experiment on Job-Entry Decisions”

• Emilia Tjernstroem (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Media and Motivation: The Effect of Performance Pay onWriters and Content”

• Sam Skowronek (Wharton School) “Why Do We Lie inIncentive-Compatible Mechanisms? Evidence from theResidency Match ”

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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS CONFERENCE 2017

DAY 2 - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Session 10B Behavioral • Tomasso Reggiani (LUMSA University) “’Should I Tell

You/Or Should I Not?’ The (Neutral) Effect ofTransparency on Information Disclosure Nudge”

• Christina Gravert (University of Gothenburg) “Nudging àla carte – A Field Experiment on Food Choice”

• Berber Kramer (IFPRI) “Cooking Contests for HealthierRecipes: Impacts on Nutrition Knowledge and Behaviorsin Bangladesh”

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3:10-3:20 pm Break SHFE 100X

3:20-4:20 pm Session 11A

Session 11B

Parallel Sessions 11 Public

• Chris Blattman (University of Chicago) “State Building inthe City: The Effects of Public Security and Services onCrime, Violence and State Legitimacy in Bogotá”

• Syon Bhanot (Swarthmore College) “Field Experiments inPublic Policy: Updates from a Citywide Effort inPhiladelphia”

• Huayu Xu (University of Michigan) “Hostel Takeover:Living Conditions, Reference Dependence, and theWellbeing of Migrant Workers”

Environmental & Energy • Sandra Goff (Skidmore College) “For What It's Worth:

Remembered Utility and the Pricing of Cultural Goods”• Michael Price (University of Alabama) “Do The Effects of

Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38Natural Field Experiments”

• Luca Panzone (Newcastle University) “Nudging, Taxing,Moral Recall and the Carbon Footprint of SupermarketShopping”

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4:20-4:30 pm Break SHFE 100X

4:30-5:50 pm Session 12A

Parallel Sessions 12 Public/Education • Toke Fosgaard (University of Copenhagen)

“Cooperation, Framing and Political Attitudes”• Andreas Saulitis (European University Institute)

“Personalization and the Framing Effect on Paying Backthe Debt to Hospitals: A Field Experiment Study”

• Ricardo Perez-Truglia (UCLA) “Tax Audits asScarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale FieldExperiment”

• Jonathan Davis (University of Chicago) “The Long (andShort) Run Impacts of Centralized Clearinghouse:

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ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS CONFERENCE 2017

DAY 2 - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

4:30-5:50 pm Session 12A

Session 12B

Evidence from matching Teach for America Teachers to Schools”

Labor • Jeffrey Flory (University of Chicago; Claremont)

“Increasing Workplace Diversity: Evidence from aRecruiting Experiment at a Fortune 500 Company”

• Redzo Mujcic (WU Vienna) “The Color of a Free Ride: ANatural Field Experiment on Discriminatory Gifts”

• Simeon Schudy (University of Munich) “IncentivizingTeam Performance in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks -Evidence from a Field Experiment”

• John Horton (NYU) “Price Floors and EmployerPreferences: Evidence from a Minimum wageExperiment”

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5:50-7:00 pm Closing Reception SHFE 112

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2017 PARTICIPANTSNoureen Akber 2M Research ServicesSandro Ambuehl University of TorontoSher Afghan Asad Iowa State UniversityEsther Bailey University of California IrvineGiorgia Barboni Princeton UniversityScott Barkowski Clemson UniversityMatt Best AllstateSyon Bhanot Swarthmore CollegeChris Blattman University of ChicagoAnne Boring Erasmus University Rotterdam,

Sciences Po (LIEPP)Nicolas Bottan University of Illinois at

Urbana-ChampaignJ. Michelle Brock EBRDCristen BublitzFlorent Buisson AllstateLeonardo Bursztyn University of ChicagoLuigi Butera The University of ChicagoMariana Carrera Case Western Reserve UniversityPradeep Chintagunta The University of ChicagoCody Cook UberNatalia Czap University of Michigan-DearbornEszter Czibor The University of ChicagoJonathan Davis The University of ChicagoMarvin Deversi The University of ChicagoIsi Dunietz The University of ChicagoPaul Ferraro Johns Hopkins UniversityMira Fischer University of CologneJeff Flory The University of ChicagoToke Reinholt Fosgaard University of CopenhagenCatalina Franco University of MichiganLinnea Gandhi The University of ChicagoCynthia Giles The University of ChicagoKenneth Gillingham Yale UniversitySandra Goff Skidmore CollegeChristina Gravert University of GothenburgMichael Greenstone The University of ChicagoKerstin Grosch University of GoettingenBasil Halperin UberKelly Hellman University of Massachusetts AmherstLukas Hensel University of OxfordMarit Hinnosaar Collegio Carlo AlbertoToomas Hinnosaar Collegio Carlo AlbertoTatiana Homonoff New York UniversityJohn Horton New York UniversityDavid Huffman University of PittsburghXiang Hui MITKei IrizawaBing Jiang Virginia Military InstituteDaviti Jibuti The University of ChicagoJuanna Joensen The University of ChicagoDamon Jones The University of ChicagoJasonKahn AllstateAndrea Kiss Duke UniversityBerber Kramer International Food Policy

Research Institute (IFPRI)Andrea La Nauze University of PittsburghGabriel Lade Iowa State UniversityAn Le The University of TokyoAndreas Leibbrandt Monash UniversitySteve Levitt The University of ChicagoLianjun Li University of IowaYingzhi Liang University of Michigan

John List The University of ChicagoJeffrey Livingston Bentley UniversityMichael Menietti Renmin University of ChinaRobert Metcalfe Boston UniversitySanjog Misra University of Chicago Booth SchoolDavid Molitor University of Illinois at

Urbana-ChampaignFatemeh Momeni The University of ChicagoIan Muir UberRedzo Mujcic WU ViennaPriya Mukherjee College of William and MaryIrene Mussio UMass AmherstDerek Neal The University of ChicagoEmily Nwakpuda University of North Carolina

at Chapel HillDavid Ong EconomicsSerge Pajak Université Paris-SudLuca Panzone Newcastle UniversityRicardo Perez-Truglia University of California, Los AngelesAnthony Pham AllstateAlex Pietraszek Gert Pönitzsch University of HeidelbergGiovanni Ponti The University of ChicagoMichael Price University of AlabamaTommaso Reggiani Masaryk UniversityDavid Reiley Pandora and UC Berkeley

School of InformationDavid Reinstein University of ExeterOlga Rostapshova Social Impact/HarvardSutanuka Roy London School of Economics Florian Rundhammer Georgia State UniversityAdam Sacarny Columbia UniversitySally Sadoff UCSDMaryam Saeedi Carnegie Mellon UniversityAndris Saulitis European University InstituteHenry Schneider Smith School of Business,

Queen’s UniversitySimeon Schudy LMU MunichClaudia Schwirplies University of HamburgSabina Shaikh The University of ChicagoSamuel Skowronek Wharton School of BusinessLisa Spantig University of Munich (LMU)Mark Stehr Drexel UniversityOlga Stoddard Brigham Young UniversityColin Sullivan The Wharton School at

the University of PennsylvaniaJoel Suss The London School of

Economics and Political ScienceValentina Tartari Copenhagen Business SchoolRebecca Thornton University of Illinois at

Urbana-ChampaignEmilia Tjernstroem University of Wisconsin - MadisonPanagiotis Toulis The University of ChicagoAngelino Viceisza Spelman CollegeAviva Wang Deborah Weiss Northwestern University

School of LawLaurel Wheeler Duke UniversityErte Xiao Monash UniversityHuayu Xu University of MichiganWenyue Yang Yale UniversityErez Yoeli Yale Applied Cooperation TeamNick Zubanov University of Konstanz

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