Economics · Boston College
This course is for anyone who wants to be able to answer questions using experiments. This course is an introduction to experimental methods, particularly those developed by economists. We will discuss in detail all of the steps of an experiment, from design, measurement and randomization, to cost and power analyses. This is strictly a methods course; the experiments we discuss are chosen to give a broad understanding of experimental methods, not a foundation of famous experimental results. Nonetheless, we will cover experiments in a variety of interesting fields: behavioral economics, economi
