John A. List

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This page is about the economist John A. List, not the mass murderer John List.

John August List is a Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming in 1996. List had his first teaching position at the University of Central Florida, and he then moved to the University of Arizona and the University of Maryland, College Park, where he still holds an adjunct position, before moving to Chicago. List also spends time at Tilburg University, where he is a distinguished visiting scholar and Resources for the Future, where he is a University Distinguished Scholar. From May 2002 to July 2003 he served as Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisors for Environmental and Resource Economics, where he worked on multi-national market institutions to address climate change, the Clear Skies Act, the OMB benefit cost guidelines, and the softwood lumber trade dispute between the US and Canada.

Within the academy, List is known particularly for his innovative use of field experiments in economics, which he uses to study such areas as charitable giving and discrimination. His pioneering use of field experimental methods has lead to interesting insights in several other areas of research as well, such as social preferences, prospect theory, environmental economics, marketplace effects on corporate and government policy decisions, and multi-unit auctions. Many of these seminal studies were produced while List was a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The Chicago economist and author Steven Levitt has referred to Mr. List as the young economist most likely to win a Nobel Prize in Economics. (See the New York Times article referred to below.)

He currently resides with his wife and 5 children (Annika, Eli, Noah, Greta, and Mason) in Flossmoor, IL.

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• "John List's Home Page"
• "Faculty Profile: John List" at the University of Maryland, College Park
• "Twelve Scholars Join Faculty" at the University of Chicago
• "Field Experiment Bibliography by John List" at the University of Maryland, College Park
• "New York Times article about John List's research into charitable giving.