Kim-Anh Le '09 presented "Do Members Really Cooperate More? Evidence from Club and Public Goods Experiments" at the Economic Science Association (ESA) conference at Cal Tech in Pasadena, CA, June 26-29, 2008. This research is the result of a joint project that Assistant Professor Natalia Ovchinnikova, Kim-Ahn Le '09, Julia Darcy '08, Brent Davis '08, and Visiting Assistant Professor Hans Czap conducted in the department's new experimental economics laboratory this spring. The experiment was also financed by the student research grants from the Dean's office.

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 full conference programme can be found at:
www.ssel.caltech.edu/esa2008.php