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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This post is from PopTech Editions III—"Made to Measure: The New Science of Impact," which explores the evolving techniques to accurately gauge the real impact of initiatives and programs designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...