An Interactive Introduction to Randomized Control Trials
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Franklin and Marshall College
This activity provides a classroom impact evaluation exercise that serves as an introduction to the primary investigative tool of current Development economics.

The Value of Exchange: A Classroom Experiment
Tisha Emerson, Baylor University
This experiment illustrates the value of exchange to students through trading of candy.

Airplane Production: A Law of Diminishing Marginal Product Exercise
Tisha Emerson, Baylor University
Classroom experiment illustrating the law of diminishing marginal productivity through the production of paper airplanes.

Public Goods Experiment
Todd Swarthout, Georgia State University

Introduction of Backward Induction Technique Using a Classroom Experiment
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Franklin and Marshall College
This classroom activity serves as an intuitive introduction to backward induction solutions in an upper level undergraduate game theory course.

Teaching Case: This American Life Episode 391: More is Less, 2009
Christina Robinson, Central Connecticut State University
This case study is based on NPR's This American Life Episode 391: More is Less, which originally aired in 2009. The story highlights the role health care providers, patients, and health insurance companies play in driving up the cost of care.

Penalty Kicks—A Simultaneous Move Zero-Sum Game
Christina Robinson, Central Connecticut State University
Penalty Kicks—A Simultaneous Move Zero-Sum Game is an experiment that illustrates the importance of playing randomized strategies. This experiment is appropriate for undergraduate students who have completed a basic game theory module and can be completed in 15-20 minutes.

Energy and the Environment
Sheryl Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
This experiment illustrates how seemingly harmless individual actions can, when taken collectively, develop into larger costs to society.

Homegrown Demand
Todd Swarthout, Georgia State University
The professor sells an announced number of M&M packets (or other inexpensive good) through an auction to derive a classroom demand schedule. The resulting demand schedule is displayed as a "curve" and facilitates discussion of consumer demand.

Learning by Teaching
Mary Lopez, Occidental College
In this service learning project, college students work in groups of three to prepare a 55-minute interactive lesson on one of the topics listed on the syllabus and team teach the lesson to students at a local high school.