The course will introduce participants to the general use of experimental methods in economics with a focus on their application to the fields of agricultural, food, environmental, forestry, public, and natural resource economics.
On successfully completing the course the participants will be able to:
1. Explain what contribution experiments can give to economics both in testing theoretical prediction and in formulating new theories.
2. Describe how laboratory are used in economics and understand their strengths, weaknesses and limits.
3. Exhibit a sound knowledge of selected applications of experimental economics to the fields of agricultural, food, environmental, forestry, public, and natural resource economics.
4. Critically assess experimental designs.
5. Produce a research proposal in which experimental economics methods are applied to their area of research. |
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