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Results of research conducted by a collaborative team of economics students and faculty will be presented at the Economic Science Association (ESA) conference in Pasadena, California, this summer by Kim-Anh Le '09, of Vietnam.

The presentation, "Do Members Really Cooperate More? Evidence from Club and Public Goods Experiments," is in the section of the conference dealing with public-goods topics and is the result of experiments conducted by Le, Julia Darcy '08, Brent Davis '08, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Hans Czap and Assistant Professor of Economics Natalia Ovchinnikova.

The Economic Science Association is a professional organization whose members focus on developing economics as an observational science. Research in the area employs controlled laboratory and field experiments as a means of understanding economic behavior. The conference takes place from June 26 through 29.

More: Conference Web site

Posted: June 26, 2008