John List

John List, 2014

John August List (born September 25, 1968 ) is an American economist .

List studied economics at the University of Wisconsin -Stevens Point ( BS , 1992). His Ph.D. he received from the University of Wyoming in 1996 . He then went to the University of Central Florida as an assistant professor . From 2000 to 2001 he was a professor at the University of Arizona and from 2001 to 2005 at the University of Maryland . From 2002 to 2004 List was also on the Council of Economic Advisors . Since 2005 he has been a professor at the University of Chicago .

List's focus is on issues of microeconomics , particularly experimental methods. Much of his work is devoted to field experiments . He has received several awards for his work. In 2011 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Thomson Reuters has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Economics since 2015 . List is married and has five children.

Publications (selection)

Steven D. Levitt & John A. List (2007): What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 21: 153-174.
Glenn W. Harrison & John A. List (2004): Field Experiments. In: Journal of Economic Literature 42: 1009-1055.
John A. List (2003): Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? In: Quarterly Journal of Economics 118: 41-71.
John A. List & Craig A. Gallet (2001): What Experimental Protocol Influence Disparities Between Actual and Hypothetical Stated Values? In: Environmental and Resource Economics 20: 241-254.
John A. List (2001): Do Explicit Warnings Eliminate the Hypothetical Bias in Elicitation Procedures? Evidence from Field Auctions for Sportscards. In: The American Economic Review 91: 1498-1507.