Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of discrimination, the consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to undermine it. We highlight ...

But if they are not making good use of data to inform them, they are missing an opportunity to improve practices. On the pitch: field experiments with elite footballers test how information helps ...

In the long term, increased carbon dioxide reduces the number of plant species by worsening the effects of nitrogen pollution ...

This study is the first to experimentally evaluate the effectiveness of a negative campaign on a regime candidate’s vote share. For the field experiment conducted during the 2013 Moscow mayoral ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, countries in South Asia have experienced increasingly severe heat waves that pose unique challenges to workers—both indoors and outdoors—in the ...

Feldberg, Alexandra C., and Tami Kim. "Are You a Guest Here? Field Experiments on Racial Discrimination in Customer Service." Working Paper, December 2017.

In a field experiment tracking 390 electric vehicles minute-by-minute, we show that incentives reduce charging by 17%—27% during peak times and increase it by 34% during midday when solar generation ...

Cai, Wei, Dennis Campbell, and Jiehang Yu. "Culture as a Signal: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4447603, May 2023.

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

We present a complete empirical case study of fundraising campaign decisions that demonstrates the unique importance of in-context field experiments. We first design novel matching-based fundraising ...