Field Experiments in Economics: the Past, the Present, and the Future

By Steven D. Levitt, John A. List. 2008

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The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing (2012, background): “The use of such experiments in economics has increased dramatically over the past few years (Levitt and List, 2009) and are already being used to measure the effects of innovative technologies on education (Banjeree et al., 2007), although they are currently less widely used in the innovation field…”
Breaking Monotony with Meaning: Motivation in Crowdsourcing Markets (2012, methodology): “Using an observation study, Preston (1989) demonstrated that workers may accept lower wages in the non-profit sector in order to produce goods with social externalities.”
The online laboratory: conducting experiments in a real labor market (2010, background): “During the same period, both field and traditional laboratory experiments have become far more common (Levitt and List, 2009).”
The external validity of giving in the dictator game (2012, background): “…that they can offer important complementary insight to laboratory studies (e.g. Andreoni et al. 2011; Card et al. 2011; Harrison and List 2004; Levitt and List 2007, 2009; Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10683-012-9337-5) contains…”
Lab Labor: What can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab? (2010, background): “11 Indeed, Levitt and List (2009) discuss some of the limitations of field experiments, such as the difficulties with some forms of replication, and the fact that “they sometimes cannot be used to distinguish between alternative theories because the experimenter exerts less control than in the lab” ”
Field experiments in labor economics (2010, methodology): “Another consideration associated with field experiments relates to ethical guidelines (Dunford 1990, Levitt and List 2009).”
Social Norms and Energy Conservation Beyond the US (2020, neutral): “We conducted a “natural field experiment” (Levitt and List 2009), where households were not informed about randomization.”
Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles (2018, neutral): “Although these experiments provide important insights, it is unclear whether findings from a laboratory environment can be generalized to real life (Levitt and List 2009).”
Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment (2012, methodology): “The natural field experiment (Harrison and List, Rasul and List, 2011, Levitt and List, 2009, Bandiera et al, 2011a) was designed and implemented in collaboration with the company’s incentive scheme management team.”
The dynamics of behavior change: Evidence from energy conservation (2016, background): “While more recently, this research has moved from the laboratory o field experiments in market settings (Levitt and List, 2009; List and Price, 2013), we still have limited understanding of he effectiveness of information framing on behavior over long time periods (Bernedo et al., 2014).”