On May 27 from 9-12, we will host a workshop in the large meeting room. At the workshop, we have four exciting presentations—both by people from our department and from elsewhere. Each uses a different methodological approach: survey, field, lab, or quasi-experiment.

Everyone is very welcome to join, and you are of course free to attend only parts of the program if that fits your schedule. The full program is below.

Workshop program:

9.00-9.15: Welcome

9.15-9.45: Laboratory Experiment

Amandine Lerusse (Leiden University): “Jumping to Solutions? Bureaucratic Attention Allocation in Response to Negative Performance Feedback”

9.45-10.15: Quasi Experiment

Karoline Larsen Kolstad (Aarhus University): “Learning from Client Interactions: Endogenous Dynamics in the Behavior of Street-level Bureaucrats”

10.15-10.30: Coffee break

10.30-11.00: Survey Experiment

Catarina Antunes Mantas (Leiden University): “Searching Near and Far? Search Distance and Performance Below Social and Historical Aspirations”

11.00-11.30: Field Experiment

Nanna Vestergaard Ahrensberg (Aarhus University): “Spreading the Word: Local Ambassadors and Family Take-Up of the READ Program in Disadvantaged Communities” 

11.30-12.00: Roundtable Discussion

Experiments in Public Administration Research: Contributions, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (Based on this article)