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UC Experiments
UC Experiments is an initiative by the Becker Center and Steve Levitt created in order to establish a research lab for running behavioral and economic experiments. The program works to create a pool of participants who are willing to participate in experiments and then run experiments using these participants.
The initiative began because it can be difficult to rally enough participants to create a meaningful data set on a campus the size of the University of Chicago. By creating a "lab" with a pool of participants it is easier to get a meaningful sample size and to target experiments to particular groups, allowing researchers to generate cleaner data sets.
An additional advantage UC Experiments offers is greater protection of subjects’ identities since the people running the experiments will be separate from the researchers using the data to draw conclusions. This benefits research because it helps to comply with the Internal Review Board.
