LEaF 2007.
Aspects of Behavioural Mechanism Design.

The 3rd London Conference on
Laboratory Economics and the Field.

Sponsored by ELSE, the ESRC, the Royal Economic Society & The Economic Journal.

Guest Co-Organizer Stephen Machin.
Keynote speaker Al Roth.

organized by Steffen Huck & Georg Weizsacker.

1 June - 3 June

PROGRAMME

Friday 01/06/07

13.00 Welcome

14.00-15.20 Keynote Lecture
Al Roth (Harvard)
Experiments for Market Design

Coffee

16.00-16.40 Analia Schlosser (Princeton)
Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School

16.40-17.20 Erik Plug (Amsterdam)
Estimates of the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples

Coffee

17.40-18.20 Aldo Rustichini (Minnesota)
Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Cognitive Abilities: Results from a Large Experiment

Dinner with speakers

Saturday 02/06/07

10.00-10.40 Martin Pesendorfer (LSE)
Equilibrium Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions: Theory and Evidence

10.40-11.20 Iris Bohnet (Harvard)
Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United States

Coffee

11.40-12.20 Jean-Robert Tyran (Copenhagen)
Layers of Bounded Rationality

12.20-13.00 Iwan Barankay (Warwick)
Social Incentives in the Workplace

Lunch

14.20-15.00 Steffen Huck (UCL)
On the Simple Economics of Giving

Coffee

15.20-16.00 Pascaline Dupas (Dartmouth)
Relative Risks and the Market for Sex

16.00-16.40 Jakob Svensson (IIES)
Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community Based Monitoring Project in Uganda

Dinner with speakers

Sunday 03/06/07

10.00-10.40 Simon Gächter (Nottingham)
tba

10.40-11.20 Anna Breman (Stockholm School of Economics)
Give More Tomorrow: A Field Experiment on Intertemporal Choice in Charitable Giving

Coffee

11.40-12.20 Maggie McConnell (Caltech)
Linking and Giving Among Teenage Girls

12.20-13.00 Jan Potters (Tilburg)
An Artefactual Field Experiment on Risk Taking, Risk Aggregation and Time Preference

Lunch