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Economic Experiments for Policy Analysis and Program Design: A Guide for Agricultural Decisionmakers

  • by Nathaniel Higgins, Daniel Hellerstein, Steven Wallander and Lori Lynch
  • 8/17/2017
  • ERR-236

Overview

This report examines the use of experiments for building evidence to inform agricultural policy, providing an introduction to the field of experimental economics and discussing the increasing use of field experiments and randomized controlled trials in the social sciences and in government.

See related Amber Waves article Gathering Experimental Evidence To Improve the Design of Agricultural Programs.

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