University of Central Florida - - 2007 UCF Research Week

Event Recap

News Articles

• Research in Society, Society in Research
• Layers of Discovery: Breakthroughs in Cancer Research
• A Forum for Graduate Student Research
• Thanks
• Stem Cell Research in Our Society: Because We Can, Should We?
• Graduate Awards for Excellence
• Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence
• Techniques for Completing a Thesis or Dissertation
• Research Week Ends with Awards
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Toward Cognitive Prostheses
• Vision for Building an Interdisciplinary Research-based Medical School
• Rosen College Research Colloquium
• Risk Attitudes, Randomizations to Treatments
• Art of Fiction Writing
• Art and Science at UCF Research Week
• Thank you to the following sponsors of 2007 UCF Research Week

Risk Attitudes, Randomizations to Treatments

During Research Week Dr. Morten Lau, lecturer in Economics at Durham University   presented on the use of randomizations in assigning participants to treatments in behavioral experiments. The use of randomizations is fundamental to statistical control in the design of experiments, but since it introduces an element of risk to the participants, and since participants differ in risk attitudes, it could lead to sample selection effects. He examined the sample selection effects from fixed show up fees and from randomizations on the recruitment of participants to a field experiment in Denmark.

Dr. Lau joined the Durham Business School in September 2005. He was previously with the Danish Ministry of Business and Industry and at the Copenhagen Business School. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Copenhagen.

The event was sponsored by the Department of Economics.

 

 

 

UCF Division of Graduate Studies, the Division of Undergraduate Studies and the Office of Research and Commercialization are proud organizers of the the 2007 UCF Research Week.

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