Thought experiments can have some advantages over real experiments: they require no special equipment, are low-cost, can be ...

What is a field experiment? Field experiments bridge the highly controlled lab environment and the messy real world. Social scientists have taken inspiration from traditional medical or physical ...

Only a few decades ago, it was believed that ADHD was something one outgrew during adolescence. However, about half of those ...

But the design doesn’t control for the effects of systemic bias, points out Chicago Booth’s Erika Kirgios. Audit experiments—such as the ones conducted by Booth’s Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil ...