#field experiments

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http://pinupmagazine.org/articles/field-experiments-hardly-together-art-exhibition-review 

Souvenir 173 - Weeds and Pavement #5, 2017 | Digital inkjet print in wood frame. 10 × 8 inches

Paul Marcus Fuog, Karim Charlebois Zariffa, and Benjamin Harrison Bryant.

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Highlighting an Oxford University research on race-based inequalities in hiring is the best way to convince people that racism is… Continue

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Souvenir 150 - Spring Side Table / Field Experiments

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Harvard Business School is hiring a Field Experiments and Research Partnerships Manager

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The Opportunity:  Harvard Business School (HBS) has an exciting opportunity for someone with intellectual curiosity and an entrepreneurial spirit to help faculty conduct innovative and ambitious field experiments with firms and other organizations around the world.    Position Summary:  The Manager, Field Experiments and Research Partnerships supports the efforts of HBS faculty conducting randomized control trials (RCTs or field experiments) at corporate, government and non-profit organizations.  As a member of the Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD), the Manager will work with HBS faculty, other service providers in the DRFD, and colleagues across HBS to facilitate connections, develop relationships, and support research activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  Reporting to the Senior Director, Research Administration, and operating as part of a cross-functional team dedicated to the support of faculty research, the Manager, Field Experiments and Research Partnerships has responsibility for the following portfolio of activities:

Identifies opportunities for research partnerships with organizations and creates a plan to develop relationships that facilitate these partnerships.  Expands and nurtures existing relationships, identifying successes that can be leveraged in other collaborations.  Acts as an ambassador for HBS field experiment opportunities, educating organizations about RCTs, communicating both the value proposition and the requirements of scientific research methodologies.

Works with colleagues in Executive Education and across HBS to highlight faculty research activities, increasing awareness and disseminating information about opportunities to participate in field experiments.  

Works with HBS faculty and organizations to establish research collaboration agreements, data use agreements, and other compliance documents in coordination with partners across HBS and Harvard University (HU).

Works with HBS faculty, DRFD service providers, and partner organizations to determine on-site staffing and support needs for individual field experiments.  Ensures that logistical and operational needs are met as well as the successful implementation of field experiments in process.  Communicates regularly with faculty and partner companies and organizations on the status of on-going projects.  

Helps direct faculty and research support staff to academic literature and practical resources that identify best practices in field experiments, and trains research support personnel when needed.

Organizes and supports community events such as workshops for HBS researchers and an annual hosted conference that would bring together academics and companies who are engaged or interested in conducting field experiments.

Works with other administrative units at HBS and HU to ensure compliance with regulations governing research with human subjects, as well as institutional, state and federal regulatory policies and procedures.  Facilitates the development of policies for managing potential conflicts of interest that may exist between faculty and companies.

Some travel required.

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Field Experiments

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This paper studies discrimination in the housing market of Stockholm by conducting a field experiment on the internet. Fictitious applicants with typical Swedish and Arabic sounding names apply vacant rental housing units advertised by private persons on the internet.

The paper explores the incidence of discrimination in the choice by advertisers to invite applicants to further contacts or to a showing of the vacant housing unit. We find in line with previous studies that women with Swedish sounding names experience a positive treatment compared to applicants with an Arabic sounding name. However, there is little evidence of a difference in the response rates between the male with a Swedish, and those with Arabic sounding names irrespective of gender.

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Misteur Valaire - Interlude by Field Experiments

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So he and Gerber began to read more generally about the origins of field experiments in other areas. The term hinted at the history: the earliest randomized trials grew out of searches for fertilizer compounds conducted by nineteenth-century researchers for the nascent chemical industry. ... Each season, scientists at the Rothamsted Agricultural Experimentation Station in England would take a blend of compounds such as phosphate and nitrogen salts, alter the ratio of the chemicals, and sprinkle it over plots of rye, wheat, and potato planted in the clay soil of the estate north of London. One year’s plant growth would be compared with the next, and the difference was recorded as an index of fertility for each chemical mixture. When the pipe-smoking mathematician R. A. Fisher arrived in 1919 and examined ninety years of experiments, he realized that the weather probably had had more to do with the variations in growth than the chemical blend. Even though Rothamsted researchers tried to discount for the volume of rain in a given season, there were many other things that varied unpredictably and even imperceptibly from year to year, like soil quality or sun or insect activity. Fisher redrew the experiment so that different chemical ratios could be compared with one another simultaneously. He split existing plots into many small slivers and then randomly assigned them different types and doses of fertilizer that could be dispensed at the same time. The size and proximity of the plots ensured that, beyond the varying fertilizer treatments, they would all experience the same external factors.

“The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns”, Sasha Issenberg