ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 4, 2020) — Army Futures Command (AFC) is incorporating emerging commercial satellite constellations and technologies into its upcoming field experiments to enable ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared on the Division of the Social Sciences website. Inequality has many causes, but sometimes it stems from a lack of incentives that foster fair outcomes. That’s ...

Nearly 400 years ago Galileo performed the first recorded laboratory experiment, timing balls as they rolled down an inclined plane to test his theory of acceleration. Since that time, laboratory ...

In a review in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes research ...

Results from a long-term field experiment shed new light on how grasslands can be restored for nature, the environment, and for farmers. From richer biodiversity and benefits for pollinators, to ...

The use of deception is common in elite correspondence audit studies. Elite audit studies are a type of field experiment used by researchers to test for discrimination against vulnerable populations ...

A recent experiment conducted in the Milan subway system suggests that the presence of a costumed superhero can significantly increase the willingness of commuters to help a stranger. The findings ...

We start with the premise that the greater use of field experiments in policy would lead to the more efficient use of scarce resources. This paper asks why field experiments are not used as widely as ...

The winners of this year’s Nobel in economics did pioneering field experiments that sometimes didn’t work as expected. By Seema Jayachandran When Michael Kremer looked at the data for a study underway ...

When we develop business strategies, we often rely on what we believe has worked in the past. Unfortunately, we’re often wrong. A better way to make a decision with financial consequences is to ...