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 ...

Social science researchers are increasingly using field experimental methods to try to answer all kinds of questions about political processes and public policies. Questions like how to combat ...

Researchers developed software that can simulate the growth of field crops. To do this, they fed thousands of photos from field experiments into a learning algorithm. This enabled the algorithm to ...

Earth's magnetic field, a familiar directional indicator over long distances, is routinely probed in applications ranging from geology to archaeology. Now it has provided the basis for a technique ...

Field experiments are popular again in policy circles. There are various types of field experiments, with complementary strengths and weaknesses for different policy questions. There is also a lot of ...

Ibanez, Maria, and Bradley R. Staats. "Behavioral Empirics and Field Experiments." In The Handbook of Behavioral Operations, edited by Karen Donohue, Elena Katok, and ...

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 ...

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 ...