John A. List

John A. List ( born September 25, 1968) is an American economist. He is a professor at the University of Chicago.

Life

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

List is married and has five children.

Work

Lists focus is on questions of microeconomics, in particular experimentiellen 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.

Publications (selection)

• Steven D. Levitt and John A. List ( 2007): What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? Journal of Economic Perspectives 21: 153-174.
• Glenn W. Harrison and John A. List ( 2004): Field experiment. Journal of Economic Literature 42: 1009-1055.
• John A. List ( 2003): Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? 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 ​​? 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 Sports Cards. The American Economic Review 91: 1498-1507.