There is a growing interest in randomized experiments in social sciences, yet this method is relatively new in education. This workshop brings together economists, psychologists, and sociologists who use this experimental method. The aim of the workshop is to provide opportunity for young researchers to exchange ideas and experiences within the topic of field experiments in education.
1 June 2017, Thursday
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Welcome roundtable
14:30 Information barriers and gender segregation in Higher Education: evidence from a field experiment - Carlo Barone
Discussant: Anna Adamecz-Völgyi
15:30 The investigation of social mechanisms reproducing educational inequalities Mutual lessons for quantitative sociologists and counterfactual policy evaluators, from two Italian randomized controlled trials - Gianluca Argentin
Discussant: Djordje Stefanovic
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Yes, you can! The Influence of Relative Performance Feedback on Secondary School Track Choice - A Randomized Field Experiment - Tamás Keller, Károly Takács, and Felix Elwert
Discussant: Zoltán Hermann
18:00 Intended College Enrolment and Educational Inequality: Do Students Lack Information? - Frauke Peter and Vaishali Zambre
Discussant: Márton Medgyesi
20:00 Social dinner (by invitation)
2 June 2017, Friday
8:30 Breakfast sandwiches and coffee
9:00 Parental involvement regarding homework of students in secondary school: an experiment - Carla Haelermans
Discussant: Péter Róbert
10:00 Enrichment courses for gifted elementary school children - Jessika Golle, Evelin Herbein, Julia Schiefer, Franziska Rebholz, & Ulrich Trautwein
Discussant: Károly Takács
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Sorting children at school and achievement goals - Philipp Albert; Dorothea Kübler and Juliana Silva-Goncalves
Discussant: Dániel Horn
12:30 Which preferences associate with school performance? - a classroom experiment - Dániel Horn, Hubert János Kiss
Discussant: Johannes Wachs
13:30 Lunch break
14:30 Closing words
15:00 End of the workshop
The workshop has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 691676