Field Experiments

Alan S. Gerber is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale University where he teaches courses on experimental methods, statistics, and American politics. His experimental research has appeared in numerous academic journals including the leading journals in political science. Donald P. Green is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, and the former director of Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Research. He is the author of numerous articles and several scholarly books on voter turnout, party identification, and experimental methods, including Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout (with Alan S. Gerber).

• Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Causal Inference and Experimentation Chapter 3: Sampling Distributions, Statistical Inference, and Hypothesis Testing Chapter 4: Using Covariates in Experimental Design and Analysis Chapter 5: One-Sided Noncompliance Chapter 6: Two-Sided Noncompliance Chapter 7: Attrition Chapter 8: Interference between Experimental Units Chapter 9: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Chapter 10: Mediation Chapter 11: Integration of Research Findings Chapter 12: Instructive Examples of Experimental Design Chapter 13: Writing an Experimental Proposal, Research Report, and Journal ArticleAppendix A: Protection of Human Subjects Appendix B: Suggested Field Experiments for Class Projects