ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE SEPT. 23-24, 2020 Keynote Speakers KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ORIANA BANDIERA Oriana Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics and the Director of the Suntory and Toyota Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, CEPR, BREAD and IZA. She is vice- president of the European Economic Association, and director of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries program and of the research program in Development Economics at CEPR. She is co-editor of Microeconomic Insights and Economica. Her research focuses on how monetary incentives and social relationships interact to shape individual choices within organizations and in labor markets. Her research has been awarded the IZA Young Labor Economist Prize, the Carlo Alberto Medal, the Ester Boserup Prize, and the Yrjö Jahnsson Award. LARRY KATZ Lawrence F. Katz is the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on issues in labor economics and the economics of social problems. He is the author (with Claudia Goldin) of The Race between Education and Technology (Harvard University Press, 2008), a history of U.S. economic inequality and the roles of technological change and the pace of educational advance in affecting the wage structure. Katz also has been studying the impacts of neighborhood poverty on low- income families as the principal investigator of the long-term evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity program, a randomized housing mobility experiment. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. ULRIKE MALMENDIER Ulrike Malmendier is Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, and Edward and Mollie Arnold Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the top financial scholars in academia, she won the prestigious Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association for best finance researcher under 40 in 2013. She has been teaching at UC Berkeley since 2006 and is the founding co-chair of the Initiative in Behavioral Finance and Economics. Malmendier’s research lies in the intersection of economics and finance, specifically how individuals make mistakes and systematically biased decisions. Her work includes research on CEO overconfidence, the long-term frugality of “Depression babies,” and the decision-making behind gym membership. She has recently been interested in the impact of economic shocks on later economic behavior of individuals who lived through these periods. ConferenceKeynote Speakers Organizers ORGANIZERS JOHN LIST John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. List joined the UChicago faculty in 2005; prior to that he was a professor at the Univ. of Central Florida, Univ. of Arizona, and Univ. of Maryland. His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with an emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive and normative issues. For decades his research has focused on issues related to the inner-workings of markets, the effects of incentives schemes on market equilibria and allocations, how behavioral economics can augment the standard economic model, on early childhood education and interventions, and most recently on the gender earnings gap in the gig economy. His research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several published books, including the 2013 international best-seller, The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (with Uri Gneezy). ROBERT METCALFE Robert Metcalfe is a Visiting Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Southern California and an Assistant Professor in Markets, Public Policy, and Law at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Economics at the University of Chicago. Rob’s research lies within applied microeconomics, with a focus on energy markets, transportation, firm and labor productivity, and digital platforms. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He has worked with many organizations such as Uber, Lyft, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Opower, Oracle, and British Telecom. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Imperial College London, respectively. He is also a co-founder of two start-up companies. You can read more about his research at www.rmetcalfe.net. Questions? Contact the conference administrator Jamie Temmer - [email protected] Conference Website: tinyurl.com/AFEVirtual2020 Webinar Link: tinyurl.com/AFEVirtual2020-Zoom Asynchronous Virtual Presentations: tinyurl.com/AFEVirtual2020-Presentations ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020 DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Asynchronous Virtual Presentations: All Day tinyurl.com/AFEVirtual2020-Presentations Welcome Speech 9:30-9:50am John List, University of Chicago Robert Metcalfe, University of Southern California Keynote 9:50-10:50am Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, “Field Experiments: Behind the Scenes” 10:50-11:10am Break Panel #1: Experiments with Firms • Zoe Cullen, Harvard University, “When a Firm Will Take a Gamble” • Jana Gallus, University of California, Los Angeles, “Field Experiments on Non-Pecuniary Incentives” 11:10am-12:10pm • Rembrand (Rem) Koning, Harvard University, “Experimental Firms” • Tova Levin, Humana, “Questioning Hypothesis: Nudging a Culture toward Experimentation” • Moderator: Robert Metcalfe, University of Southern California 12:10-1:10pm Lunch Panel #2: Advances with Methods • Omar Al-Ubaydli, George Mason University, “Strategic and Non-Strategic Reasons Why Small-Scale Results Often Fail to Scale-Up” 1:10-2:10pm • Jonathan Libgober, Harvard University, "Research Registries: Myths, Facts and Possible Improvements" • Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich, “Research Collaborations with Government Agencies” • Moderator: Luigi Butera, Copenhagen Business School 2:10-2:30pm Break Note: All times CDT (GMT -05:00) ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020 DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Social Chat for Junior Faculty: Publishing Experiments in the Top General Interest Journals (limit 150 people) • Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and Political Sciences 2:30-3:30pm • Yan Chen, University of Michigan • Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley • Larry Katz, Harvard University • Imran Rasul, University College London • Moderator: John List, University of Chicago Note: All times CDT (GMT -05:00) ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020 DAY 2 – THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Asynchronous Virtual Presentations: All Day tinyurl.com/AFEVirtual2020-Presentations Keynote Larry Katz, Harvard University, "Housing Mobility Policies and 10:00-11:00am Neighborhood Effects: Lessons from Randomized Field Experiments" 11:00-11:20am Break Panel #3: Gender and Field Experiments • Uri Gneezy, University of California, San Diego, “Individual Differences in Preferences” • Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania, “Lab-Field 11:20am-12:20pm Hybrids: Blending Lab Control with Field Incentives in Experiments in the US and Zambia” • Olga Stoddard, Brigham Young University, “Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment on Gender, Influence and Group Dynamics” • Moderator: Karen Ye, Queen’s University 12:20-12:40pm Lunch Keynote Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley, 12:40-1:40pm “Exposure, Experience, and Expertise -- Why Personal Histories Matter for Economic Decisions" Closing Remarks 1:40-1:45pm John List and Robert Metcalfe Note: All times CDT (GMT -05:00) ADVANCES WITH FIELD EXPERIMENTS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020 ASYNCHRONOUS PRESENTATIONS tinyurl.com/AFEVirtual2020-Presentations Jakob Alfitian, University of Cologne, "When Bonuses Backfire: Incentivizing Attendance Increases Absenteeism in the Workplace" Mark Andor, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, "Locus of Control and Pro- Social Behavior" Francis Annan, Georgia State University, "Gender and Financial Misconduct: A Field Experiment on Mobile Money" Viola Asri, University of Konstanz, "Rent-Seeking or Constrained? Examining the Supply Side of Social Pension Targeting in Bangladesh" Natasha Auch, Newcastle University, "Commit to Commitment: Voluntary Versus Forced Commitment to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Food Shopping" Maria Bernedo Del Carpio, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, "Community Monitoring to Facilitate Water Management by Local institutions in Water-Scarce Regions of Central America" Parampreet Christopher Bindra, University of Innsbruck, "The Effect of Priming on Fraud - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment" Charlotte Blank, Maritz, "The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives" Stefano Caria, University of Warwick, "An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan" Yiting Chen, National University of Singapore, "Longshot Preference in the Field" Peter Christensen, University of Illinois, "Mobility Constraints: Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riders" Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University, "Breaking Gender Barriers: Bringing Men into the Pink-Collar Jobs of the Future" Grant Donnelly, Ohio State University, "Boosting the Impact of Sugary