ARS70501 Experiments in Environmental Economics II

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Global Studies

Lecture Code ARS70501 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name Experiments in Environmental Economics II （実験環境経済学 II）

Subject Name
（Katakana）ジッケンカンキョウケイザイガク II

Subject Name in
English Experiments in Environmental Economics II

Instructor GOTO DAISAKU

Instructor
(Katakana) ゴトウ　ダイサク

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  Second Semester,  4Term

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (4T) Thur9-10：IAS K112

Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
(More Details) 　

The lectures will be a hybrid of face-to-face and online.
Lectures and practical experiments are conducted based on handouts that will be distributed in class.
(In-person lectures will be offered, but online lectures may be offered if necessary.)

Credits 1.0 Class Hours/Week 　 Language of Instruction E : English

Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 24 : Social Sciences

Course Area（Discipline） 03 : Economics

Eligible Students

Keywords

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Integrated Global Studies
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.
・The knowledge and understanding of one's own language and culture and other languages and cultures that are prerequisite abilities for communication with people from different cultures and areas of specialization.
・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the
mutual relations and their importance among individual
academic disciplines.
（Abilities and Skills）
・The ability to collect and analyze necessary literature or data among various sources of information in individual academic disciplines.
・The ability to specify necessary theories and methods for the consideration of important issues.
・The ability to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, deliver presentations at seminars or research meetings, and explain it in an easy way so that people in different cultures and areas of specialization understand.
（Comprehensive Abilities）
・The ability to think in an interdisciplinary way to discover issues based on ethical research practices and subjective intellectual interests, and propose a plan to solve them.
・The ability to conduct research proactively by combining knowledge,  understanding, and skills for the tasks, based on flexible creativity and imagination.
・The ability to take action cooperatively to advance research to resolve the problem by sharing issues with people from different cultures and areas of specialization, and explaining one’s own ideas logically and simply.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline This course is a research oriented class in experimental environment economics that is intended to:
1. expose you, the students, to a varied set of experimental economic papers.
2. guide you to think about environmental economics from the perspective of an empirical social science.
3. provide you with a working knowledge of techniques for conducting field or lab experiments in environmental economics.
4. help you to design your own experiment(s)

The classes has three major componets:
(1) In lecture, we will discuss (and you, the students, will read research papers on) major substantive topics addressed by experimental environmental economics.
(2) Each lecture will also cover methodological topics that will aid you in designing, conducting, analyzing and presenting a field or laboratory experiment.
(3) You, the student will design an original experimental study.

Summary of Topics:
1. Willingness to pay
2. Time and risk preferences
3. Altrism
4. Public goods

Summary of Methodological Topics:
1. Causal inference
2. Theats to varidity (internal and external)
3. Sample size and power calculations
4. Human subjects
5. Clustering and Standard Errors

Class Schedule 1. Introduction
2. Measurement and describing data
3. Correlation vs. causation
4. Unit level effect vs. average treatment effect
5. Confunders and counterfactuals
6. Statistical vs. causal inference
7. Randomized control experiment
8. Issues with sample size
9. Issues in experimental design
10. Issues in lab experiments and field experiments
11. Experiment 1
12. Experiment 2
13. Experiment 3
14. Experiment 4
15. Presentation and summary

Text/Reference
Books,etc. (Reference Books)
[1] The Handbook of Experimental Economics, John Kagel and Alvin E. Roth, editors, Princeton University Press, 1995.
[2] Handbook of Field Experiments, Volume 1 and 2 (Handbook of Economic Field Experiments), Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, editors, North-Holland, 2017.

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. 　

(More Details) Lectures are conducted with pc-projector system and a whiteboard.

Learning techniques to be incorporated 　

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review After each class, students are requested to review all materials distributed in the class.
Before each class, students are recommended to preview the relevant materials.

Requirements It is necessary to take both Experiments in Environmental Economics I and Experiments in Environmental Economics II.
Maximum number of the students: 20.
If the number limit is exceeded, the students will be selected by lottery in the first lesson.

Grading Method Grade will be evaluated by Attendance records (10%), Contribution to the class (20%),  Presentation (30%), and Work-term report (40%).

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Global Studies
Lecture Code	ARS70501	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	Experiments in Environmental Economics II （実験環境経済学 II）
Subject Name （Katakana）	ジッケンカンキョウケイザイガク II
Subject Name in English	Experiments in Environmental Economics II
Instructor	GOTO DAISAKU
Instructor (Katakana)	ゴトウ　ダイサク
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	2nd-Year, Second Semester, 4Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(4T) Thur9-10：IAS K112
Lesson Style	Seminar	Lesson Style (More Details)
The lectures will be a hybrid of face-to-face and online. Lectures and practical experiments are conducted based on handouts that will be distributed in class. (In-person lectures will be offered, but online lectures may be offered if necessary.)
Credits	1.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	E : English
Course Level	3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	24 : Social Sciences
Course Area（Discipline）	03 : Economics
Eligible Students
Keywords
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Global Studies （Knowledge and Understanding）・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines. ・The knowledge and understanding of one's own language and culture and other languages and cultures that are prerequisite abilities for communication with people from different cultures and areas of specialization. ・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic disciplines. （Abilities and Skills）・The ability to collect and analyze necessary literature or data among various sources of information in individual academic disciplines. ・The ability to specify necessary theories and methods for the consideration of important issues. ・The ability to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, deliver presentations at seminars or research meetings, and explain it in an easy way so that people in different cultures and areas of specialization understand. （Comprehensive Abilities）・The ability to think in an interdisciplinary way to discover issues based on ethical research practices and subjective intellectual interests, and propose a plan to solve them. ・The ability to conduct research proactively by combining knowledge, understanding, and skills for the tasks, based on flexible creativity and imagination. ・The ability to take action cooperatively to advance research to resolve the problem by sharing issues with people from different cultures and areas of specialization, and explaining one’s own ideas logically and simply.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	This course is a research oriented class in experimental environment economics that is intended to: 1. expose you, the students, to a varied set of experimental economic papers. 2. guide you to think about environmental economics from the perspective of an empirical social science. 3. provide you with a working knowledge of techniques for conducting field or lab experiments in environmental economics. 4. help you to design your own experiment(s) The classes has three major componets: (1) In lecture, we will discuss (and you, the students, will read research papers on) major substantive topics addressed by experimental environmental economics. (2) Each lecture will also cover methodological topics that will aid you in designing, conducting, analyzing and presenting a field or laboratory experiment. (3) You, the student will design an original experimental study. Summary of Topics: 1. Willingness to pay 2. Time and risk preferences 3. Altrism 4. Public goods Summary of Methodological Topics: 1. Causal inference 2. Theats to varidity (internal and external) 3. Sample size and power calculations 4. Human subjects 5. Clustering and Standard Errors
Class Schedule	1. Introduction 2. Measurement and describing data 3. Correlation vs. causation 4. Unit level effect vs. average treatment effect 5. Confunders and counterfactuals 6. Statistical vs. causal inference 7. Randomized control experiment 8. Issues with sample size 9. Issues in experimental design 10. Issues in lab experiments and field experiments 11. Experiment 1 12. Experiment 2 13. Experiment 3 14. Experiment 4 15. Presentation and summary
Text/Reference Books,etc.	(Reference Books) [1] The Handbook of Experimental Economics, John Kagel and Alvin E. Roth, editors, Princeton University Press, 1995. [2] Handbook of Field Experiments, Volume 1 and 2 (Handbook of Economic Field Experiments), Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, editors, North-Holland, 2017.
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
(More Details)	Lectures are conducted with pc-projector system and a whiteboard.
Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	After each class, students are requested to review all materials distributed in the class. Before each class, students are recommended to preview the relevant materials.
Requirements	It is necessary to take both Experiments in Environmental Economics I and Experiments in Environmental Economics II. Maximum number of the students: 20. If the number limit is exceeded, the students will be selected by lottery in the first lesson.
Grading Method	Grade will be evaluated by Attendance records (10%), Contribution to the class (20%), Presentation (30%), and Work-term report (40%).
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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