John A. List

Latest Institution: University of Chicago

All Institutions: Centre for European Economic Research; University of Maryland; University of Chicago; NA; Department of Economics, University of Chicago; University of Arizona; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Tennessee; George Mason University; Monash University; University of Oregon; The University of Alabama; Boston University; Australian National University; Michigan State University; University of Hamburg; The University of Chicago; University of California, San Diego; University of California San Diego; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Inter-American Development Bank; Washington University in St. Louis; ZEW Centre for European Economic Research; NBER; Naveen Jindal School of Management; Harvard University


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Based on the Following Papers:

Neoclassical Theory versus Prospect Theory: Evidence from the Marketplace

Year: 2003
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: John A. List

Chasing the Smokestack: Strategic Policymaking with Multiple Instruments

Year: 2003
Journal: Regional Science and Urban Economics
Authors: Per G. Fredriksson; John A. List; Daniel L. Millimet

Auctions with Resale When Private Values are Uncertain: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Andreas Lange; John A. List; Michael K. Price

Using Tontines to Finance Public Goods: Back to the Future

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Andreas Lange; John A. List; Michael K. Price

How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy

Year: 2004
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: John A. List; Daniel M. Sturm

Nonrenewable Resource Prices: Deterministic or Stochastic Trends?

Year: 2005
Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Authors: Junsoo Lee; John A. List; Mark Strazicich

The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions

Year: 2005
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: John A. List

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Craig Landry; Andreas Lange; John A. List; Michael K. Price; Nicholas G. Rupp

Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments

Year: 2006
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Uri Gneezy; John A. List

Friend or Foe: A Natural Experiment of the Prisoners Dilemma

Year: 2006
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: John A. List

Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Michael Margolis; Daniel E. Osgood

That's News to Me: Information Revelation in Professional Certification Markets

Year: 2006
Journal: Economic Inquiry
Authors: Ginger Zhe Jin; Andrew Kato; John A. List

Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2006
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Dean Karlan; John A. List

Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally Occurring Data

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List

Internal Increasing Returns to Scale and Economic Growth

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Haiwen Zhou

Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winners Curse

Year: 2007
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Glenn W. Harrison; John A. List

Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision

Year: 2008
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Michael A. Spencer; Stephen K. Swallow; Jason F. Shogren; John A. List

Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

Year: 2008
Journal: European Economic Review
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

Year: 2008
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Uri Gneezy; Kenneth L. Leonard; John A. List

Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity: Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

Year: 2008
Journal: Experimental Economics
Authors: Daniel Rondeau; John A. List

Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Craig E. Landry; Andreas Lange; John A. List; Michael K. Price; Nicholas G. Rupp

What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments

Year: 2009
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; David H. Reiley Jr.

Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Sally E. Sadoff

The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations

Year: 2009
Journal: Management Science
Authors: Tanjim Hossain; John A. List

Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

The Economics of Open Air Markets

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List

Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving

Year: 2009
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Stefano Dellavigna; John A. List; Ulrike Malmendier

So You Want to Run an Experiment? Now What? Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Optimal Experimental Design

Year: 2010
Journal: Experimental Economics
Authors: John A. List; Sally Sadoff; Mathis Wagner

Auctions with Resale When Private Values Are Uncertain: Evidence from the Lab and Field

Year: 2010
Journal: International Journal of Industrial Organization
Authors: Andreas Lange; John A. List; Michael K. Price

A Dynamic Explanation of the Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept Disparity

Year: 2010
Journal: Economic Inquiry
Authors: Catherine L. Kling; John A. List; Jinhua Zhao

Investment Under Uncertainty: Testing the Options Model with Professional Traders

Year: 2010
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: John A. List; Michael S. Haigh

Do Competitive Workplaces Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job Entry Decisions

Year: 2010
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Jeffrey A. Flory; Andreas Leibbrandt; John A. List

Field Experiments in Labor Economics

Year: 2010
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Imran Rasul

The Nature of Excess: Using Randomized Treatments to Investigate Price Dynamics

Year: 2010
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; John A. List; Michael K. Price

Toward an Understanding of the Relative Strengths of Positive and Negative Reciprocity

Year: 2010
Journal: Judgment and Decision Making
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; Uri Gneezy; Min Sok Lee; John A. List

Empirical Implementation of Nonparametric First-Price Auction Models

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Econometrics
Authors: Daniel J. Henderson; John A. List; Daniel L. Millimet; Christopher F. Parmeter; Michael K. Price

Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: Ori Heffetz; John A. List

Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience

Year: 2011
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: John A. List

Is There a Hidden Cost of Control in Naturally Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Craig E. Landry; Andreas Lange; John A. List; Michael K. Price; Nicholas G. Rupp

The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Craig E. Landry; Andreas Lange; John A. List; Michael K. Price; Nicholas G. Rupp

On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; John A. List

Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Chad Syverson

Carrots that Look Like Sticks: Toward an Understanding of Multitasking Incentive Schemes

Year: 2012
Journal: Southern Economic Journal
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; Steffen Andersen; Uri Gneezy; John A. List

How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Dean Karlan; John A. List

The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Greenstone; John A. List; Chad Syverson

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

Year: 2012
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Susanne Neckermann; Sally Sadoff

Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2012
Journal: Management Science
Authors: Andreas Leibbrandt; John A. List

On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics: With a Response to Camerer

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; John A. List

The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity

Year: 2013
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Stefano Dellavigna; John A. List; Ulrike Malmendier; Gautam Rao

Using Field Experiments in Environmental and Resource Economics

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Michael K. Price

Testing the Theory of Multitasking: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories

Year: 2013
Journal: International Economic Review
Authors: Fuhai Hong; Tanjim Hossain; John A. List; Migiwa Tanaka

Toward an Understanding of Why Suggestions Work in Charitable Fundraising: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: James T. Edwards; John A. List

Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Steffen Andersen; Alec Brandon; Uri Gneezy; John A. List

Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education

Year: 2014
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daron Acemoglu; David Laibson; John A. List

Voting to Tell Others

Year: 2014
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Stefano Dellavigna; John A. List; Ulrike Malmendier; Gautam Rao

The Behavioralist as Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance

Year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Michael Hallsworth; John A. List; Robert D. Metcalfe; Ivo Vlaev

On the Role of Group Size in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from Lab and Field Experiments

Year: 2014
Journal: Management Science
Authors: John A. List; Daan van Soest; Jan Stoop; Haiwen Zhou

The Behavioralist as Nutritionist: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Child Food Choice and Consumption

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Anya Savikhin Samek

Ode to the Sea: Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation

Year: 2014
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Uri Gneezy; Andreas Leibbrandt; John A. List

The Making of Homo Honoratus: From Omission to Commission

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Hallsworth; John A. List; Robert D. Metcalfe; Ivo Vlaev

Do Natural Field Experiments Afford Researchers More or Less Control Than Laboratory Experiments? A Simple Model

Year: 2015
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; John A. List

On the Origins of Dishonesty: From Parents to Children

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daniel Houser; John A. List; Marco Piovesan; Anya Savikhin Samek; Joachim Winter

Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Experimental Economics

Year: 2016
Journal: Experimental Economics
Authors: John A. List; Azeem M. Shaikh; Yang Xu

A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Tova Levin; Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

Field Experiments in Markets

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; John A. List

The Effects of Wage Contracts on Workplace Misbehaviors: Evidence from a Call Center Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeffrey A. Flory; Andreas Leibbrandt; John A. List

The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Sally Sadoff

A New Approach to an Age-Old Problem: Solving Externalities by Incenting Workers Directly

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Greer K. Gosnell; John A. List; Robert Metcalfe

Supply and Demand for Discrimination: Strategic Revelation of Own Characteristics in a Trust Game

Year: 2016
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Anthony Heyes; John A. List

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work

Year: 2016
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Stefano Dellavigna; John A. List; Ulrike Malmendier; Gautam Rao

Can Myopic Loss Aversion Explain the Equity Premium Puzzle? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment with Professional Traders

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Francis Larson; John A. List; Robert D. Metcalfe

The Effect of Early Education on Social Preferences

Year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Alexander W. Cappelen; John A. List; Anya Samek; Bertil Tungodden

Moral Costs and Rational Choice Theory: Experimental Evidence

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James C. Cox; John A. List; Michael Price; Vjollca Sadiraj; Anya Samek

Do the Effects of Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alec Brandon; Paul J. Ferraro; John A. List; Robert D. Metcalfe; Michael K. Price; Florian Rundhammer

When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2017
Journal: Management Science
Authors: John A. List; Fatemeh Momeni

The Business of Business is Business: Why Some Firms Should Provide Public Goods When They Sell Private Goods

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Chienyu Lai; Andreas Lange; John A. List; Michael K. Price

Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself

Year: 2017
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Uri Gneezy; John A. List; Jeffrey A. Livingston; Sally Sadoff; Xiangdong Qin; Yang Xu

An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science with an Application to the Public Goods Game

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Luigi Butera; John A. List

Harnessing Policy Complementarities to Conserve Energy: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Robert D. Metcalfe; Michael K. Price; Florian Rundhammer

Do Equal Employment Opportunity Statements Backfire? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment on Job Entry Decisions

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Andreas Leibbrandt; John A. List

The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from Over a Million Rideshare Drivers

Year: 2018
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Cody Cook; Rebecca Diamond; Jonathan Hall; John A. List; Paul Oyer

Toward an Understanding of the Development of Time Preferences: Evidence from Field Experiments

Year: 2019
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: James Andreoni; Michael A. Kuhn; John A. List; Anya Samek; Kevin Sokal; Charles Sprenger

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2019
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Basil Halperin; Benjamin Ho; John A. List; Ian Muir

The Science of Using Science: Towards an Understanding of the Threats to Scaling Experiments

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; John A. List; Dana Suskind

The Behavioralist Goes Door-to-Door: Understanding Household Technological Diffusion Using a Theory-Driven Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Matilde Giaccherini; David H. Herberich; David Jimenez-Gomez; John A. List; Giovanni Ponti; Michael K. Price

Toward an Understanding of the Welfare Effects of Nudges: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Erwin Bulte; John A. List; Daan van Soest

Design and Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Field Experiments in Panel Data Settings

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Bharat K. Chandar; Ali Hortasu; John A. List; Ian Muir; Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

Risk Preferences of Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills, and Executive Functions

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James Andreoni; Amalia Di Girolamo; John A. List; Claire Mackevicius; Anya Samek

The Drivers of Social Preferences: Evidence from a Nationwide Tipping Field Experiment

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Bharat Chandar; Uri Gneezy; John A. List; Ian Muir

The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains

Year: 2019
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Greer K. Gosnell; John A. List; Robert D. Metcalfe

Toward an Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Daniel Hedblom; Brent R. Hickman; John A. List

The Dozen Things Experimental Economists Should Do More Of

Year: 2019
Journal: Southern Economic Journal
Authors: Eszter Czibor; David Jimenezgomez; John A. List

Do Appeals to Donor Benefits Raise More Money Than Appeals to Recipient Benefits? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment with Pick.Click.Give

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; James J. Murphy; Michael K. Price; Alexander G. James

A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science: With an Application to the Public Goods Game

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Luigi Butera; Philip J. Grossman; Daniel Houser; John A. List; Marie-Claire Villeval

Market Design, Human Behavior, and Management

Year: 2020
Journal: Management Science
Authors: Yan Chen; Peter Cramton; John A. List; Axel Ockenfels

Research Registries: Facts, Myths, and Possible Improvements

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Eliot Abrams; Jonathan Libgober; John A. List

Non Est Disputandum de Generalizability: A Glimpse into the External Validity Trial

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List

The Value of Time in the United States: Estimates from Nationwide Natural Field Experiments

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ariel Goldszmidt; John A. List; Robert D. Metcalfe; Ian Muir; V. Kerry Smith; Jenny Wang

Reservation Wages and Workers' Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kuanming Chen; Claire Ding; John A. List; Magne Mogstad

The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Fatemeh Momeni; Yves Zenou

Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Anya Samek

Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Marco Castillo; John A. List; Ragan Petrie; Anya Samek

The 100 Million Nudge: Increasing Tax Compliance of Businesses and the Self-Employed Using a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Justin E. Holz; John A. List; Alejandro Zentner; Marvin Cardoza; Joaquin Zentner

Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Adolescent Human Capital Formation: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Analysis

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Christopher Cotton; Brent R. Hickman; John A. List; Joseph Price; Sutanuka Roy

It All Starts with Beliefs: Addressing the Roots of Educational Inequities by Shifting Parental Beliefs

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Julie Pernaudet; Dana Suskind

Myopic Loss Aversion and Investment Decisions: From the Laboratory to the Field

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kazi Iqbal; Asadul Islam; John A. List; Vy Nguyen

How Experiments with Children Inform Economics

Year: 2021
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: John A. List; Ragan Petrie; Anya Samek

The Human Perils of Scaling Smart Technologies: Evidence from Field Experiments

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alec Brandon; Christopher M. Clapp; John A. List; Robert D. Metcalfe; Michael Price

Using Machine Learning for Efficient Flexible Regression Adjustment in Economic Experiments

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Ian Muir; Gregory K. Sun

The Impact of Team Incentives on Performance in Graduate School: Evidence from Two Pilot RCTs

Year: 2022
Journal: Economics Letters
Authors: John A. List; Rohen Shah

Nothing Propinks Like Propinquity: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Effects of Spatial Proximity in the Major League Baseball Draft

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Majid Ahmadi; Nathan Durst; Jeff Lachman; John A. List; Mason List; Noah List; Atom T. Vayalinkal

Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges versus Taxes

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John A. List; Matthias Rodemeier; Sutanuka Roy; Gregory K. Sun

Stress Testing Structural Models of Unobserved Heterogeneity: Robust Inference on Optimal Nonlinear Pricing

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Aaron L. Bodoh-Creed; Brent R. Hickman; John A. List; Ian Muir; Gregory K. Sun

Generation Next: Experimentation with AI

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Gary Charness; Brian Jabarian; John A. List

A Simple Rational Expectations Model of the Voltage Effect

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Omar Alubaydli; Chienyu Lai; John A. List

Toward an Understanding of Tax Amnesties: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Patricia Gil; Justin E. Holz; John A. List; Andrew Simon; Alejandro Zentner


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