The Economic Science Association (ESA) is a professional organization devoted to using controlled experiments to learn about economic behavior. ESA members include economists as well as scholars in psychology, business, political science, and other related fields.

The ESA publishes two journals, Experimental Economics and Journal of the Economic Science Association, sponsors conferences, and maintains online discussion groups (Announcements, Methods) for its members. We welcome researchers, students, and practitioners interested in experiments to join us as ESA members.

ESA organizes conferences and workshops around the world to bring researchers together to share their latest work and develop new innovative applications of experiments.

Conference participation is open to faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students, as well as practitioners and other research users in industry, government, and policy. Presenting a paper is not mandatory!

The experimental method is a flexible toolkit for collecting evidence to design interventions and support policy decisions to address current economic and social issues and improve outcomes.

Find out more about how people are applying insights obtained from economics experiments in our series of short videos.