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Field Experiments in Behavioral Economics
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5239-20-03-31 
Enrollment deadline: 13/02/2020
PlaceVon Langen F111
Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C
Date and time30.03.2020, at: 09:00 - 03.04.2020, at: 16:00
Regular seats30
Course fee1,000.00 kr.
LecturersToke Reinholt Fosgaard
ECTS credits5.00
Contact personCharlotte Bukdahl Jacobsen    E-mail address: cja@ifro.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserToke Reinholt Fosgaard    E-mail address: tf@ifro.ku.dk
Written languageEnglish
Teaching languageEnglish
Semester/BlockAutumn
Scheme group noteShort PHD course. See program below
Exam formWritten assignment
Exam aidsAll aids allowed
Grading scaleCompleted/ Not completed
Course workload
Course workload categoryHours
Preparation90.00
Lectures40.00
Project work15.00
Sum145.00
Content
Over the last couple of decades the importance of, and interest in, the area of experimental economics has grown massively. A prominent feature of the experimental approach in economics is the possibility to establish clear causal relation by using tightly controlled experimental tasks and randomization of participants into various experimental conditions. Such possibilities often do not exist with naturally occurring data since behavior in such situations can be a mixture of circumstances and selection bias of particular types of people. Experimental economics circumvents this. Typically experimental economics has applied controlled laboratory experiments where participants take decision in a tightly controlled choice environment. Whereas this setting is widely accepted as the best way of establishing controlled choice environments it lacks the natural nature of everyday decision making. Making decisions in a laboratory is just not the same as outside the laboratory. A recent advancement in this field has been taking up this concern and developing field experiments as a supplement to the laboratory experiments. In a field experiment, decision makers are taking decisions in an everyday setting without knowing that they are being monitored. Furthermore, field experiments still make use of randomization to establish causal relations. Whereas the core idea in field experiments is quite simple executing it is not, and requires a lot of handcrafting.

The present PhD course intends to introduce the science of field experiments to PhD students from economics or any other social science background. The idea is to make an environment for best practice of doing field experiments with a truly hands-on approach. This aim is met by:

Letting participants part take in a field experiment
Letting participants perform their own field experiment
Having a long array of national and international experts present their experience with setting up field experiments.
Letting the participants discuss own research ideas with the experts.
Having course participants write up a field experiment suggestion as a course assignment.
A successful completion of the course count as 5 ECTS points. These points are calculated to cover the effort of preparing for the course (reading the course material – academic papers), attending and actively engaging in the lectures and the other course activities, and finally hand in a short written proposal for a field experiment (which will be graded as passed/not passed).

Location: Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C, auditorium: Von Lagen (New building, second floor)

Lunch and coffee throughout the course is provided.

The course cost 1000 DKK and registration is done via this site.

Learning outcome
The present PhD course intends to introduce the science of field experiments to PhD students from economics or any other social science background. The idea is to establish an environment for best practice of doing field experiments with a truly hands-on approach. This aim is met by having a long array of national and international experts present their experience with setting up field experiments, and letting the participants discuss own research ideas with the experts and follow students.
A successful completion of the course count as 5 ECTS points. These points are calculated to cover the effort of preparing for the course (reading the course material – academic papers), attending and actively engaging in the lectures and the other course activities, and finally for individual proposals for a future field experiment (presented during the course).

Literature
Research papers.

Teaching and learning methods
Lectures and group discussions.

Remarks
Academic qualifications:
PhD students doing research in social science

Lecturers:
Uri Gneezy
Toke Fosgaard
Lars Gårn Hansen
Goytom A Kahsay
Luigi Butera
Silvia Angerer
Christina Gravert
Salvatore Di Falco
Selim Gulesci
Pedro Rey Biel

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