Summary
The Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University is a research center and laboratory affiliated with the Antonin Scalia Law School, School of Business, Department of Economics in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Mercatus Center. ICES was founded in 2001 by Vernon Smith (2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics).
ICES brings together researchers and students interested in using the methods of experimental economics to answer research questions from a variety of fields. Using both laboratory and field experiments, research at ICES has been conducted in such areas as public choice, development, bargaining, neuroscience, and economic systems design (ESD).
Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science is Daniel Houser.
About
In 2019, the Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics (CSN), led by Kevin McCabe, was incorporated into ICES. The Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics was a research center and laboratory dedicated to the experimental study of how emergent mental computations in the brain interact with the emergent computations of institutions to produce legal, political, and economic order.
The main ICES laboratories are located in room 419 of Enterprise Hall on the Fairfax campus. One lab contains 28 computer terminals and a smaller lab contains 10 computer terminals. The majority of economics experiments take place at this location. ICES also utilizes facilities on the Mason Square campus. Recently, ICES has also been conducting online experiments.
Are you a GMU student? Want to earn money for participating in an ICES experiment?
ICES is looking for students to join our subject pool. ICES experiments are conducted in the lab located in Enterprise Hall. Students will play games and fill out surveys, then get paid in cash immediately after each session. Sessions last 1-2 hours, and most students make about $20/hour.
Please visit our recruiter website to learn more and to sign up to be a participant in ICES experiments. After signing up, you will receive invitations to participate in experiments on human behavior and decision making.
Contact
Email: CENTER
Locations
George Mason University
3434 N. Washington Blvd, 1B2
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: 703.993.4850
Fax: 703.993.4851
Web Links
People
Faculty
Director
Professor
Chair of Department Experimental statistics and methods, emotion and individual differences, political economy
Professor
Economic theory, game theory, political economy, experimental economics
Assistant Professor
Cultural Evolution, Economic History, Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Distinguished University Professor
Public choice, political economy, law and economics and health economics
Graduate Research Assistant
Experimental Economics
Working Papers
2023 ICES Working Papers
2022 ICES Working Papers
- ICES 2022-06, Maurice Kugler, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Wenjing Wang and James Witte, “Self-employment and Immigration: Opportunity vs. Necessity Entrepreneurship”
- ICES 2022-05, Kaleb Abreha, Jieun Choi, Woubet Kassa, Hyun Ju Kim and Maurice Kugler, “Mobile Data Access Expansion, Price Information Diffusion, and Firm Performance: Ethiopia’s Transition to 3G in 2008”
- ICES 2022-04, Cesar Martinelli and Naila Sebastian Esandi, “Career Incentives and Corruption: A Lab Experiment”
- ICES 2022-03, Moumita Roy and Daniel Houser, “Identity, Leadership, and Cooperation: An Experimental Analysis”
- ICES 2022-02, Sixuan Chen, Yongmei Liu, Jianxin Wang, and Daniel Houser, “Honesty, Elections and Leadership”
- ICES 2022-01, David K. Levine and Cesar Martinelli, “Razor-Thin Elections”
