Behind the Scenes

Pre-registration and Trial Design

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, 16 September 2025

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David McKenzie, Amisha Miller

The IGL PhD community brings together early-career researchers looking to enhance their skills in experimental research and get feedback from both their peers and senior scholars.

One of our workshop series is “Behind the Scenes” which consists of talks by senior researchers, focused on the practical, sometimes invisible, decisions that shape experimental research in organisations and management. These sessions follow the rough timeline of a typical journal publication process for field experiments, starting with experimental design and pre-registration, then moving toward implementation, recruitment, funding, revision, and publishing. Sessions will run every other month, with each session focused on a concrete stage of the research process. 

If you are interested in joining the PhD Community and participating in the sessions, please browse for more information here and register your interest here.

Our first session will be on:

📅September 16, 2025 – 2:00-3:00 pm BST / 9:00-10:00 am EST –
Pre-registration and Trial Design

📌 Topic: Pre-registration and Trial Design

👤 Discussants: David McKenzie –  Lead Economist, World Bank; Amisha Miller – Assistant Professor, NYU Stern.

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  David McKenzie

  Lead Economist

  World Bank

  David McKenzie is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit. He received his B.Com.(Hons)/B.A. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Prior to joining the World Bank, he spent four years as an assistant professor of Economics at Stanford University. […]

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  Amisha Miller

  PhD Candidate

  Boston University Questrom School of Business

  Amisha Miller is a PhD candidate in Strategy & Innovation at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. Her research interests are decision-making practices in entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on inclusion and inequality. She conducts field experiments and field research, and leverages her previous work in varied entrepreneurship research, policy, and founder roles to […]

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