LEaF 2005 Programme

 
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
10:00
Michael Kremer (Harvard)
Contracting for Health

Armin Falk (IZA)
Trust and the City: Measuring Social Capital in a Field Experiment

(A related paper is here.)

11:00
COFFEE
COFFEE
11:30
Oriana Bandiera (LSE)
Social Preferences and the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Personnel Data
Imran Rasul (Chicago)
Managerial Incentives in Hierarchies: Evidence From a Field Experiment
12:15
John Ham (Ohio State)
Selection Bias, Demographic Effects and Ability Effects in Common Value Auction Experiments
Susan Athey (Stanford)
The Distribution of Treatment Effects in Experimental Settings: Applications of Nonlinear Difference-in-Difference Approaches
13:00
14:00 WELCOME
LUNCH
LUNCH
14:30
Orazio Attanasio (UCL)
Playing with Surveys in Rural Colombia
Morten Lau (Copenhagen)
Preference Heterogeneity in Experiments: Comparing the Field and Lab
15:15
Rafael Lalive (U Zurich)
Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions
Gert Wagner (DIW)
Two Kinds of Links between Behavioral Experiments and Representative Surveys
16:00
COFFEE
COFFEE
16:30
David Reiley (U Arizona)
Can Values Be Estimated from Auction Bids? Nonparametric Estimates from a Sportscard Field Experiment

Antonio Guarino (UCL)
Herd Behavior in Financial Markets: Experiments and Empirics

17:15
Iris Bohnet (Harvard)
Fostering Trust: Evidence from Kuwait, Oman, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United States
Simon Gachter (Nottingham)
Norms of Cooperation among Urban and Rural Dwellers: Experimental Evidence from Russia
20:00
DINNER
DINNER