24th Annual Conference on Economic Issues
Field Experiments in Economics
APRIL 26-27, 2003
Abigail Barr
Abigail Barr's research focuses on the interplay between economic and social factors, on the role of behavioural norms and social networks in economic development, and on the processes by which functional behavioural norms and other informal institutions emerge. Within this context, she is currently researching the role of civil social activity and the emergence and enforcement of norms of fairness, reciprocity, trust, and cooperation in resettled Zimbabwean villages, the role of Ghanaian entrepreneurial networks as productive assets, and ethnic identity and networks as a basis for statistical discrimination. Abigail is a member of the Cross Cultural Experimental Research Group, an interdisciplinary venture investigating human sociality and involving academics from across Europe, the US, and the developing world. In her work Abigail combines survey, focus group, and experimental data generation methodologies to facilitate the analysis of individuals' behaviour within their social and professional contexts.
And you can get a photo from: http://www.econ.ox.ac.uk/Faculty/EconDetails.asp?Detailno=138
Stephen Burks
Stephen V. Burks is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Management, at the University of Minnesota, Morris (the liberal arts college operated by the University). He studied the philosophy of social science at Reed College (B.A.), and Indiana University, Bloomington (M.A.), and then spent a decade working in the trucking industry, during the period of deregulation. He received a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1999, with Samuel Bowles as Chair. His dissertation was on how trust and reciprocity in the employment relationship shaped the restructuring of the labor and product markets in motor freight after deregulation, and was supported by the University of Michigan Trucking Industry Program (UMTIP, a Sloan Foundation project), from which he then received a post-doctoral fellowship. The dissertation led to an interest in the experimental economics of social preferences (such as trust reciprocity), and he is pursuing two overlapping research directions, the first on the role of social preferences in employment relations, using behavioral economic experiments framed in field settings (currently supported by the University of Minnesota and the MacArthur Foundation), and the second on aspects of trucking industry economics (supported in 2000 and 2001 by UMTIP, and in 2003 by the Trucking Industry Program, Georgia Institute of Technology).
Justine Burns
Juan-Camilo Cardenas
After finishing my B.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1989, I worked for two years on social policy research, and decided to pursue my Master's in Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, completing the degree in 1994. I returned to my home country for the 1994-1996 period to join Javeriana University for teaching and research, and by 1996 I decided to continue with my Ph.D. degree in Resource Economics again at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and thanks to scholarships at different moments by the Inter-American Foundation, Resources for the Future and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Sam Bowles, Cleve Willis, Tom Stevens and John Stranlund guided my dissertation, titled "Rural Institutions, Poverty and Cooperation: Learning from Experiments and Conjoint Analysis in the Field". During my last doctoral year I had the chance to attend the Arizona Economic Science Laboratory summer program with Vernon Smith. After completion of my Ph.D., I continued with my post-doctoral studies at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, for one year, working with Elinor Ostrom. By the fall of 2000 I returned back to my home country, Colombia, and to Javeriana University where I have been since then, at the School of Environmental and Rural Studies, sharing research and teaching with a group of colleagues from various social and natural sciences.
My academic and research life can be described as a constant travel between the classroom, the laboratory, the field and back. I am currently using experimental methods inspired by game theory, psychology and economics, to study the problems of decision-making by individuals when facing environmental problems or collective ones in general, and how these decisions may lead to social outcomes that affect ecosystems and the well-being of these individuals. I have been conducting these economic experiments not only with students, but mostly in the field, where the subjects are people who face in their daily life the types of problems modeled and studied. Of particular interest to me are questions of how heterogeneity and inequality within and across groups may affect the decision-making and the outcomes at social and ecological levels. Also I have been very interested in studying how do people react and adapt to different types of external and endogenous regulations aimed at eliminating the so-called "tragedy of the commons."
Published Research
Cardenas, J C, Stranlund, J and Willis, C. 2002. Economic inequality and burden-sharing in the provision of local environmental quality. Ecological Economics: in press. 270 KB
Cardenas, J C. 2002. Real wealth and experimental cooperation: experiments in the field lab. Journal of Development Economics: in press. 395 KB
Cardenas, J C, Stranlund, J and Willis, C. 2000. Local environmental control and institutional crowding-out. World Development: published online. 1 MB
The papers posted above are not SFI working papers, nor were they funded by SFI. They are solely the work of the author and coauthors, and do not necessarily reflect the research currently being undertaken on the SFI campus.
Link to my website: http://www.javeriana.edu.co/jcc/
Jeffrey Carpenter
Jeffrey Carpenter joined the Economics faculty as an assistant professor in September 1999. He finished his dissertation under the supervision of Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles at the University of Massachusetts, February 2000. His dissertation focused on the logical and behavioral foundations of the equal split as a bargaining convention. Prior to returning to New England for his graduate studies (he was born in Bennington, Vermont), he spent his formative years in the Midwest at the University of Minnesota where he received his bachelors degree (BS, Accounting) from the Carlson School of Management.
His research fields include Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Game and Bargaining Theory, and Theoretical Institutional Economics. While pursuing these interests, he has become involved with the MacArthur Foundation's preferences research group headed by Herbert Gintis (UMass) and Robert Boyd (UCLA), and he has been in residence and conducted research at both the Economic Science Lab at the University of Arizona and the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics at the University of Zürich. His research has been (and is), funded by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. This research has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economics Letters, Computational Economics, Labour Economics, the Journal of Economic Psychology, the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Go to Jeffrey Carpenter's Web page.
Catherine Eckel
Catherine Eckel is Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, where she has been on the faculty since 1983. In 2002, she was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study). She spent two years as Economics Program Director at the National Science Foundation (1996-98), and was a visiting scholar at the Economic Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona (1994-95). She is Director of the Virginia Tech behavioral research lab, the Laboratory for the Study of Human Thought and Action. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Virginia.
Eckel's research concerns the effect of social interaction on economic exchange, and is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Aspen Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Her work is interdisciplinary, and incorporates concepts from psychology and sociology into economic research. She has published over 25 papers in journals in economics and other fields.
Dr. Eckel is associate editor of the Southern Economic Journal, Experimental Economics, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics and Journal of Economic Psychology. She is Vice President of the Southern Economic Association, North American Secretary of the Economic Science Association, and has served on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association, and executive boards of the Southern Economic Association and the Economic Science Association. In addition to her position as Program Director, she also has served on advisory panels for the IGERT, ADVANCE, and Decision, Risk and Management Science programs at NSF.
Catherine C. Eckel
Department of Economics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0316
Phone: 540-231-7707
Fax: 540-231-5097
email: eckelc@vt.edu
Link to my web page is: http://www.econ.vt.edu/Eckel
Simon Gaechter
Simon Gaechter is a professor of economics at the University of St. Gallen. He teaches courses on microeconomics, game theory, organizational and labor economics, experimental economics, and economics and psychology. Simon Gaechter received his PhD in Economics in 1994 at the University of Vienna (Austria). After post-graduate lecturer positions at the Universities of Vienna and Linz , Simon Gaechter became an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich. In 2000 he became a full professor of economics at the University of St. Gallen. His main research interests and publications are on behavioral issues of voluntary cooperation and punishment, wage formation and incentive contracting. Recently, Simon got involved in cross-cultural research on different norms of cooperation and punishment. Simon is affiliated with the MacArthur Foundation research network on social norms and preferences and the CESifo research network on Employment and Social Protection.
Link to my web page is: http://www.few.unisg.ch/gaechter/sgaechter.htm
Lorenz Goette
Lorenz Goette is an assistant professor in Ernst Fehr's group at the University of Zurich. Currently, he is a Swiss National Science Foundation research fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in labor economics, economics and psychology, and applied microeconomics.
Phil Grossman
Philip J. Grossman is Associate Professor at Saint Cloud State University. He received his bachelor's degree in Economics from Washington University in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1984. He has held faculty appointments at the National University of Singapore, The University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia, West Virginia University, Wayne State University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Texas - Arlington. His areas of research include charitable giving, sex differences, state and local government public finance.
Link to homepage: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pjgrossman/
Glenn Harrison
Glenn Harrison is the Dewey H. Johnson Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1955, completed his undergraduate education (B.Ec.(Hons.) and M.Ec) at Monash University in Melbourne in 1978 and the Ph.D. in Economics at UCLA in 1982. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), University of Arizona, University of Melbourne, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Stockholm and University of New Mexico.
Professor Harrison's current research interests include experimental economics, law and economics, international trade policy and environmental damage assessment. He has published over 90 articles in academic journals and volumes, including the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Law & Economics, Economic Journal, the Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, International Journal of Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Review of Economics & Statistics, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He has been as Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Journal of Regional Science.
Professor Harrison has been a consultant for numerous government agencies and private bodies. These include the Reserve Bank of Australia, the California Energy Commission, the Atlantic Richfield Company, the World Bank (research into trade liberalization options for developing countries, as well as the global effects of the Uruguay Round), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (research into the global effects of agricultural trade wars, and quantitative assessment of negotiation options), Sandia National Laboratory, the American Petroleum Institute (a critical review of natural resource damage assessment procedures), the National Commission for Employment Policy (evaluating the employment effects of regulatory policy) the Swedish government (examining carbon tax proposals to reduce global warming), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (evaluating carbon tax proposals), and Danish government (evaluating tax and deregulation policies), private counsel representing Attorney-Generals and private parties suing tobacco companies for economic damages, and private counsel representing a class of South Carolina land-owners suing Exxon Corporation for damages from spills from underground storage tanks.
Professor Harrison is active in civil rights, and is currently Secretary of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina. He is also a life member of the NAACP.
Professor Harrison lives in Columbia, South Carolina. He is married to the economist Elisabet Rutström, and they have a 13-year old daughter Linnéa.
Before coming to the United States Professor Harrison also played football professionally for the Australian Rules football team Hawthorn.
Link to my website: http://dmsweb.moore.sc.edu/glenn
Joe Henrich
Dr. Henrich is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. Before coming to Emory in 2002, he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, where we worked with an interdisciplinary group on Social Norms and Economic Behaviour. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Henrich was a fellow in the Society of Scholars and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Michigan Business School. As a theorist, experimentalist and ethnographer, Dr. Henrich's work spans Anthropology, Biology and Economics, and he has published in the leading journals in all three fields. As a field worker, he has conducted research in Peru (Amazonia), Chile, the U.S., and, most recently, in Fiji. His research interests include cultural learning, culture-gene coevolution, the origins and psychology of human prosociality and prestige, and economic decision-making. Most recently, he was awarded the National Science Foundation's prestigious five year career development grant.
Joe Henrich
Department of Anthropology
Emory University
1557 Pierce Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322
Office Phone: (404) 727-5248
jhenric@emory.edu
Link to my website: http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ANTHROPOLOGY/FACULTY/ANTJH/home.html
Cathleen Johnson
Laurie Johnson
Dr. Laurie Johnson is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Denver, with a specialty in environmental economics. Prior to coming to Denver, Dr. Johnson taught at the State University of New York at Albany, and at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her teaching and research focuses on environmental economics, the economics of climate change, political economy, cost-benefit analysis, experimental economics, and statistics.
Dean Karlan
Dean S. Karlan is an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He holds a joint appointment in the Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
His research primarily covers empirical micro-development issues of poverty alleviation.
He completed his Ph.D. in Economics at M.I.T.
Link to my website: http://www.princeton.edu/~dkarlan
Morten Lau
Morten Lau is a Research fellow, Centre for Economic and Business Research, Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs.
Education:
Ph.D, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001. Supervisor: Peter Birch Sørensen.
Visiting fellow, Harvard University, September 1999 - December 1999.
Visiting scholar, University of Colorado, January 1998 - May 1998.
M.Sc.(Econ), Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 1996. Supervisor: A. Lans Bovenberg
Employment:
Research fellow, Centre for Economic and Business Research, Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, May 2000 - present.
Research associate, MobiDK project, Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, October 1996 - May 2000.
Research associate, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C. and University of Copenhagen, Denmark, February 1996 - October 1996.
Research assistant, Economic Policy Reseach Unit (EPRU), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. August 1995 - February 1996, and April 1992 - September 1994.
Teaching assistant, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. September 1995 - December 1995, and September 1993 - December 1993.
Current Research Projects:
Nordic-Baltic Growth Project, with James R. Markusen, Thomas F. Rutherford and Anders Sørensen
Dynamic Effects of Human Capital Formation on Employment, Production and Welfare, with Panu Poutvaara.
Publications:
Theses, Books and Monographs
Articles in International Journals and Books
Articles in Danish/Nordic Journals and Books
Working Papers in English
Working Papers in Danish
Other Professional Activities:
Refereeing:
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,
Journal of Public Economics.
John List
John List is a Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of Maryland.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming.
List's published research includes theoretical and empirical inquiries into both positive and normative issues in economics, with a special focus on environmental and resource problems.
Link to my web page: http://www.arec.umd.edu/jlist/
Peter Matthews
I joined the Economics Department in the fall of 1995, shortly after submitting my Ph.D. thesis, Essays on the Analytical Foundations of the Classical Tradition, at Yale, where I worked with John Geanakoplos, David Weiman and Benjamin Polak. I have a BA (First Honors) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and an MA from Queen's University at Kingston, also in Canada. I teach courses in macroeconomics, international economics, labor economics and advanced economic theory, and much of the research that I do could be called "analytical political economy," and have recently become interested in the applications of evolutionary game theory. For those who are interested, recent working papers, both mine and others in the department, are available at the EconPapers site, http://econpapers.hhs.se/paper/mdlmdlpap/.
I am married to Carolyn Craven, a development economist and award-winning children's book author. We share our old Vermont house with our remarkable twin daughters, Emma Laurel and Catriona Mari, now seven, and three cats.
Andreas Ortmann
Andreas Ortmann is currently Citicorp professor of economics at the Center of Economic Research and Graduate Education and senior researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague.
An economist by training (and cognitive psychologist by inclination), his game-theoretic and experimental work focuses on issues of strategic interactions. He has published in International Journal of Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, American Psychologist, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, History of Political Economy, and Journal of Economic Education, among others.
For his complete list of publications, a recent cv, and a number of working papers, please see home.http://www.cerge-ei.cz/ortmann where you also find a picture of him as a young man.
Alvin Roth
Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and the Harvard Business School. He is interested in game theory, experimental economics, and market design.
He received his Ph.D at Stanford University, and came to Harvard from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Andrew Mellon Professor of Economics.
My web page is at http://www.economics.harvard.edu/~aroth/alroth.html
Lisa Rutstrom
Robert Slonim
Robert Slonim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He received his PhD: from Duke University in 1995 and was a Postdoctoral Visitor at The University of Pittsburgh from 1996 to 1998.
Profession Slonim primarily works on topics in behavioral economics and game theory. In the past few years he has written papers on learning (with Al Roth and Ido Erev), on trust and inference (with Jim Engle-Warnick), on behavioral pricing (with Ellen Garbarino), on the academic and behavioral effects of educational scholarships to disadvantaged families (with Eric Bettinger) and on how experience mixtures affect behavior and the income distribution. His recent work has been supported by the Weatherhead School of Management and the National Science Foundation.
Professor Slonim is married to Ellen Garbarino. They live and work in Cleveland and have a one year old son Zachary.
Rick Wilson
Rick Wilson is a Professor in the Political Science Department at Rice University.
Professor Wilson is involved in a number of research projects that use experimental methods to explore strategic choice. He has designed experiments that explore the development of cooperation in numerous bargaining games. His latest work involved field experiments conducted near the Arctic Circle in Siberia. The research has a strong cross-disciplinary cast and is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and is facilitated by the Rice University Behavioral Research Laboratory.
Link to my web page: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rkw/Rick_K._Wilson.html