Ziliak, Stephen T. - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2011
In an article titled "Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, the Present, and the Future," Levitt and List (2009 …) make three important claims about the history, philosophy, and future of field experiments in economics. They claim that … field experiments in economics began in the 1920s and 1930s, in agricultural work by Neyman and Fisher. Second, they claim …