IZA/WZB Workshop: Field Days 2013: Experiments Outside the Lab

Thursday, August 22:

12:00	-	12:55		Registration and Lunch
12:55	-	13:00		Welcome by the Organizers
				Session A
13:00	-	14:00		Heather Royer (University of California, Santa Barbara), Mark Stehr (Drexel University), Justin Sydnor (University of Wisconsin)
				"Incentives and Commitments and Habit Formation Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company "
				Discussant: Christian Traxler (Hertie School of Governance )
14:00	-	15:00		Patrick J. Nolen (University of Essex), Michele Belot (University of Edinburgh), Jonathan James (University of Bath)
				"Changing Eating Habits: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools"
				Discussant: Melanie Lührmann (Royal Holloway, University of London)
15:00	-	15:30		Coffee Break
				Session B
15:30	-	16:30		Michael Callen (University of California, San Diego)
				"The Political Economy of Public Employee Absence: Experimental Evidence from Parkistan""
				Discussant: Christine Binzel (Heidelberg University and IZA)
16:30	-	17:30		Margaret McConnell (Harvard University), Dean Karlan (Yale University), Greg Fischer (LSE), Pia Raffler (Yale University)
				"Price Expectations and Willingness to Pay for Health Products in Uganda"
				Discussant: Rajshri Jayaraman (European School of Management and Technology (ESMT))
19:30				Dinner at Restaurant (tba)

Friday, August 23:

				Session C
10:30	-	11:30		Paul Adams (Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)), Dr Stefan Hunt (Financial Conduct Authority)
				"Encouraging Consumers to Claim Redress: Evidence from a Field Trial"
				Discussant: Tobias Schmidt (DIW Berlin)
11:30	-	12:30		James Choi (Yale University), Emily Haisley (Barclays Bank PLC), Jennifer Kurkoski (Google Inc.), Cade Massey (University of Pennsylvania)
				"Small Cues Change Savings Choices"
				Discussant: Joeri Sol (University of Amsterdam)
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session D
14:00	-	15:00		Ernesto Dal Bó (University of California, Berkeley), Ned Augenblick (UC Berkeley), Jesse Cunha (Naval Postgraduate Academy), Justin Rao (Microsoft Research)
				"The Economics of Faith: Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field"
				Discussant: Simon Jäger (Harvard University and IZA)
15:00	-	16:00		Melanie Morten (Yale University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Dean Karlan (Yale University), Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth College)
				"A Personal Touch: Text Messaging for Loan Repayment"
				Discussant: Simeon Schudy (University of Konstanz)
16:00	-	16:30		Coffee Break
				Session E
16:30	-	17:30		Joachim Winter (University of Munich), Melanie Luhrmann (Royal Holloway, University of London), Marta Serra-Garcia (Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego)
				"The Effects of Financial Literacy Training: Evidence from a Field Experiment with German High-school Children"
				Discussant: Julia Schmid (WZB - Social Science Research Center Berlin )
17:30	-	18:30		Robert Dur (Erasmus University Rotterdam and IZA), Christiane Bradler (ZEW Mannheim), Susanne Neckermann (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Arjan Non (Maastricht University)
				"Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment"
				Discussant: Peter Werner (University of Cologne)