Read the impact IFREE has had on previous workshop attendees, grant and award recipients.
"For over a decade, IFREE has supported my experimental research on the psychology of morality, property, alliances, and politics. Beginning as a graduate student, I learned new ways to use experiments to study markets and institutions. As an assistant professor in political science, I helped create a new lab for studying political institutions with the methods of experimental economics, and two of my PhD students also received training and support from IFREE. I continue to return to Vernon’s classic articles to help me explain the many uses of incentivized experiments to colleagues in political science, where these methods remain underappreciated. IFREE’s vision of experiments goes far beyond the familiar efforts to amend rational choice or ratify causal inferences. IFREE reimagines economics as an experimental science in which researchers study institutions in the microcosm of the laboratory, testing theories grounded in psychology and human nature. Dedicated to teaching and research, IFREE leads the forefront of experimental methods for understanding the workings of human societies."
Peter DeScioli
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University
“I owe a lasting debt to IFREE and its donors for their role in my academic and professional development. IFREE provided funding for my graduate fellowship and fully funded my (very expensive) dissertation research, and also provided funding for my research as an assistant professor. Moreover, I have benefited greatly from the annual IFREE workshop in experimental economics, which as allowed me to discuss my work with bright and talented graduate students and to meet top scholars from around the country.”
Dr. Abel Winn
Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Research and Administration, Chapman University
"A lot important work in experimental economics cannot materialize without subject money to carry out, but can still be carried out without a larger grant for additional funding. Such larger grants require much more time to prepare and need to pass the scrutiny of non-experimentalists. Often these are awarded to themes that might not match those supported by ifree. Open to all countries, the ifree small grants scheme fills this niche for everyone doing research on experimental markets. The quick and efficient procedure allowed me and my coauthors to focus on the research, resulting in an exciting new paper."
Todd Kaplan
Professor of Economics, University of Haifa and University of Exeter
The 24th Annual Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics, 2019
"The workshop offered me an opportunity to experience both sides of experimental studies: the participants and the researchers. Each class started with a replication of a lab experiment of the instructor’s recent research, and we participated in it with a real monetary incentive. After that, the instructor explained about the research and what behaviors she or he wanted to test through the experiment we just took part. We rarely experience the participant side of experimental studies, and this experience helped me a lot in designing my own experiment."
Yuki Takahashi
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Economics University of Bologna
"I thoroughly recommend IFREE's Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics. The workshop brought together PhD students from around the world to explore laboratory methods in economics and learn from some of the leading academics in this field."
Matthew Walker
PhD Candidate, Economics Durham University Business School, UK
"IFREE provided an excellent opportunity for graduate students to learn about the field of behavioral economics first-handedly. It was especially useful to first be part of experiments from the perspective of participants before delving more deeply into theory and methodology. As a graduate student in psychology, it was also particularly insightful to learn how behavioral economists develop questions, employ games to solve those questions, and interpret their results. Lastly, it was great talking with other graduate students from various fields such as economics, political science, and psychology."
Diego Guevara Beltran
PhD Candidate, Social Psychology Cooperation and Conflict Lab Arizona State University
It was a friendly place for political scientists interested in economic games as well - I highly recommend it for any poli sci grad student who wants to use these methods. https://t.co/IRFVEynuNY
— Talbot M Andrews (@TalbotMAndrews) January 18, 2019
“The Chapman graduate workshop was by far the best event for PhD students in experimental/behavioral economics I have ever attended. I especially enjoyed participation in experiments before the lectures. I have run a few experiments myself, but prior to the workshop, I have never actually experienced the experiment as a participant. It provided me with a very interesting perspective, and the combination with the following lecture was just invaluable. I learned a lot about how world-class researcher think, but also how they materialize their ideas and generate insights. As the icing on a cake, I was the lucky one to enjoy a lunch with Professor Smith, which was unforgettable.” -Matej Lorko, PhD Candidate, Macquarie Graduate School of Management