JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10805)

C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods (1389)

C9 - Design of Experiments (135)

C93 - Field Experiments (48) Year LSE creators Item Type Departments File available

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Abramovsky, Laura, Attanasio, Orazio, Barron, Kai, Carneiro, Pedro, Stoye, George (2016). Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor: evidence from a large-scale experiment in Colombia. Economía, 16(2), 89 - 142. https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.79 picture_as_pdf

Akinsete, Ebun, Velias, Alina, Papadaki, Lydia, Chatzilazarou, Lazaros-Antonios, Koundouri, Phoebe (2025). Blending experimental economics and living laboratories in water resource management. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 17(1), 149 - 165. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-013024-033007 picture_as_pdf

Al-Ubaydli, Omar, Cassidy, Alecia, Chatterjee, Anomitro, Khalifa, Ahmed, Price, Michael (2023). The power to conserve: a field experiment on electricity use in Qatar. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper 404). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Almunia, Miguel, Harju, Jarkko, Kotakorpi, Kaisa, Tukiainen, Janne, Verho, Jouko (2018). Expanding access to administrative data: the case of tax authorities in Finland and the UK. International Tax and Public Finance, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-018-9525-0#copyrightInformation picture_as_pdf

Guttman-Kenney, Benedict, Adams, Paul, Hunt, Stefan, Laibson, David, Stewart, Neil, Leary, Jesse (2025). The semblance of success in nudging consumers to pay down credit card debt. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 17(4), 72 - 105. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20230568

Santos, Indhira, Petroska-Beska, Violeta, Carneiro, Pedro, Eskreis-Winkler, Lauren, Munoz Boudet, Ana Maria, Berneil, Ines, Krekel, Christian, Arias, Omar, Duckworth, Angela (2022). Can grit be taught? Lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1878). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

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Bandiera, Oriana, Barankay, Iwan, Rasul, Imran (2011). Field experiments with firms. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(3), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.25.3.63

Bandiera, Oriana, Barankay, Iwan, Rasul, Imran (2005). The evolution of cooperative norms: evidence from a natural field experiment. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).

Berry, Jim, Fischer, Gregory, Guiteras, Raymond (2010-11-06 - 2010-11-07) Incentive compatibility in the field: a test of the Becker-De Groot-Marschak mechanism [Paper]. The Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) conference, Cambridge, United States, USA.

Berry, James, Fischer, Gregory, Guiteras, Raymond (2020). Eliciting and utilizing willingness to pay: evidence from field trials in northern Ghana. Journal of Political Economy, 128(4), 1436 - 1473. https://doi.org/10.1086/705374 picture_as_pdf

Boehm, Johannes, Fize, Etienne, Jaravel, Xavier (2024). Five facts about MPCs: evidence from a randomized experiment. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1998). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Boo, Florencia Lopez, Creamer, John (2019). Cash, conditions, and child development: experimental evidence from a cash transfer program in Honduras. Economía, 19(2), 169 - 196. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2019.0005 picture_as_pdf

Bryan, Gharad, Karlan, Dean, Zinman, Jonathan (2012). You can pick your friends, but you need to watch them: loan screening and enforcement in a referrals field experiment. (BREAD working paper 321). Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.

Bryan, Gharad, Karlan, Dean, Zinman, Jonathan (2015). Referrals: peer screening and enforcement in a consumer credit field experiment. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(3), 174-204. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20130234

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Ederer, Florian, Ferman, Bruno, Yuchtman, Noam (2014). Understanding mechanisms underlying peer effects: evidence from a field experiment on financial decisions. Econometrica, 82(4), 1273 - 1301. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA11991 picture_as_pdf

Eble, Alex, Boone, Peter, Elbourne, Diana (2013). Risk and evidence of bias in randomized controlled trials in economics. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1240). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Lagarde, Mylène, Blaauw, Duane (2022). Overtreatment and benevolent provider moral hazard: evidence from South African doctors. Journal of Development Economics, 158, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102917 picture_as_pdf

Picard, Julien, Banerjee, Sanchayan (2023). Behavioural spillovers unpacked: estimating the side effects of social norm nudges. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper 402). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

C

Callen, Michael, Long, James D. (2015). Institutional corruption and election fraud: evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan. American Economic Review, 105(1), 354 - 381. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20120427 picture_as_pdf

Carattini, Stefano, Gillingham, Kenneth T., Meng, Xiangyu, Yoeli, Erez (2022). Peer-to-peer solar and social rewards: evidence from a field experiment. (CCCEP Working Paper 408). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. picture_as_pdf

Carattini, Stefano, Gillingham, Kenneth T., Meng, Xiangyu, Yoeli, Erez (2022). Peer-to-peer solar and social rewards: evidence from a field experiment. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper 383). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Chassang, Sylvain, Padró i Miquel, Gerard, Snowberg, Erik (2012). Selective trials: a principal-agent approach to randomized control experiments. American Economic Review, 102(4), 1279-1309. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.4.1279

Cheshire, Paul, Gibbons, Stephen, Mouland, Jemma (2017). Social tenants’ health: evaluating the effectiveness of landlord interventions. (SERC Discussion Papers SERCDP219). Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Choudhary, M. Ali, Jain, Anil K. (2022). Credit access and relational contracts: an experiment testing informational and contractual frictions for Pakistani farmers. (International Finance Discussion Papers 1363). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. https://doi.org/10.17016/ifdp.2022.1363

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De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Imbert, Clement, Spinnewijn, Johannes, Tsankova, Teodora, Luts, Maarten (2019). How to improve tax compliance? Evidence from population-wide experiments in Belgium. (CEP Discussion Papers 1621). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Imbert, Clement, Spinnewijn, Johannes, Tsankova, Teodora, Luts, Maarten (2021). How to improve tax compliance? Evidence from population-wide experiments in Belgium. European Journal of Political Economy, 129(5), 1425 - 1463. https://doi.org/10.1086/713096 picture_as_pdf

Dolan, Paul, Galizzi, Matteo M. (2014). Because I'm worth it: a lab-field experiment on the spillover effects of incentives in health. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1286). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.

Dolan, Paul, Galizzi, Matteo M. (2015). Like ripples on a pond: behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy. Journal of Economic Psychology, 47, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2014.12.003

Dwenger, Nadja, Kleven, Henrik, Rasul, Imran, Rincke, Johannes (2016). Extrinsic and intrinsic motivations for tax compliance: evidence from a field experiment in Germany. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8(3), 203-232. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20150083

Krekel, Christian, De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, Fancourt, Daisy, Layard, Richard (2020). A local community course that raises mental wellbeing and pro-sociality. (CEP Discussion Papers 1671). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

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Eyring, Henry, Narayanan, V.G. (2018). Performance effects of setting a high reference point for peer-performance comparison. Journal of Accounting Research, 56(2), 581 - 615. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-679X.12199

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Fergusson, Leopoldo, Molina, Carlos, Riaño, Juan Felipe (2019). Consumers as VAT "evaders": incidence, social bias, and correlates in Colombia. Economía, 19(2), 21 - 67. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2019.0001 picture_as_pdf

Fergusson, Leopoldo, Molina, Carlos, Riaño, Juan Felipe (2018). I sell my vote, and so what? Incidence, social bias, and correlates of clientelism in Colombia. Economía, 19(1), 181 - 218. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2018.0011 picture_as_pdf

Frijters, Paul, Kong, Tao Sherry, Liu, Elaine M. (2015). Who is coming to the artefactual field experiment? Participation bias among Chinese rural migrants. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 114, 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.03.006

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Galizzi, Matteo M., Machado, Sara R., Miniaci, Raffaele (2016). Temporal stability, cross-validity, and external validity of risk preferences measures: experimental evidence from a UK representative sample. The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Social Policy.

Galizzi, Matteo M., Miraldo, Marisa, Stavropoulou, Charitini (2013). Doctor-patient differences in risk preferences, and theirlinks to decision-making: a field experiment. (Discussion Paper 2013/7). Imperial College London, Business School.

Galizzi, Matteo M., Miraldo, Marisa, Stavropoulou, Charitini (2013). In sickness but not in wealth: field evidence on patients’risk preferences in the financial and health domain. (Discussion Paper 2013/8). Imperial College London, Business School.

Galizzi, Matteo M., Navarro-Martínez, Daniel (2015). On the external validity of social preferences games: a systematic lab-field study. (Barcelona GSE Working Paper 802). Barcelona GSE.

Galizzi, Matteo M., Miraldo, Marisa, Stavropoulou, Charitini, van der Pol, Marjon (2016). Doctor–patient differences in risk and time preferences: a field experiment. Journal of Health Economics, 50, 171-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.10.001

Gertner, Gaston, Johannsen, Julia, Martinez, Sebastian (2016). Effects of nutrition promotion on child growth in El Alto, Bolivia: results from a geographical discontinuity design. Economía, 17(1), 131 - 165. https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.48 picture_as_pdf

Gortazar, Lucas, Hupkau, Claudia, Roldan-Mones, Antonio (2023). Online tutoring works: experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1908). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Lohmann, Paul M., Gsottbauer, Elisabeth, You, Jing, Kontoleon, Andreas (2023). Anti-social behaviour and economic decision-making: panel experimental evidence in the wake of COVID-19. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 206, 136 - 171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.12.007 picture_as_pdf

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Hassan, Fadi, Lucchino, Paolo (2016). Powering education. (CEP Discussion Paper 1438). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.

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Kung, Claryn S. J., Johnston, David W., Shields, Michael A. (2018). Mental health and the response to financial incentives: evidence from a survey incentives experiment. Journal of Health Economics, 62, 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.09.008 picture_as_pdf

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Khan, Adnan Q., Khwaja, Asim Ijaz, Olken, Benjamin A. (2019). Making moves matter: experimental evidence on incentivizing bureaucrats through performance-based postings. American Economic Review, 109(1), 237-270. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20180277 picture_as_pdf

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Lagarde, Mylène, Riumallo Herl, Carlos (2025). Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention. Journal of Development Economics, 172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103365 picture_as_pdf

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Ruiz-Tagle, Cristobal, Schueftan, Alejandra (2021). Nudging for cleaner air: experimental evidence from an RCT on wood stove usage. Environmental and Resource Economics, 79(4), 713 - 743. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-021-00582-w picture_as_pdf

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Vandoros, Sotiris (2013). My five pounds are not as good as yours, so I will spend them. Experimental Economics, 16(4), 546-559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-013-9351-2