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John List
Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Director of the Chicago Experiments Initiative
John List stands at the forefront of environment economics and is an expert in the application of experimental methods to study economic questions. He earned the Kenneth Galbraith Award in 2010 and the 2008 Arrow Prize for Senior Economists for his research in Behavioral Economics. Through field experiments, List has provided insight into issues including pricing behavior, market structure, the impact of environmental regulation and the impacts of incentives on education, charitable giving, and weight...
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- Sep 18, 2023Generation Next: Experimentation with AI
- Aug 29, 2023Stress Testing Structural Models of Unobserved Heterogeneity: Robust Inference on Optimal Nonlinear Pricing
- Aug 29, 2023Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Adolescent Human Capital Formation: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Analysis
- May 15, 2023Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes
- May 8, 2023Toward an Understanding of Tax Amnesties: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
- Jan 18, 2023A Simple Rational Expectations Model of the Voltage Effect
- Dec 26, 2022Nothing Propinks Like Propinquity: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Effects of Spatial Proximity in the Major League Baseball Draft
- Dec 19, 2022Using Machine Learning for Efficient Flexible Regression Adjustment in Economic Experiments
- Dec 9, 2022High-Frequency Location Data Shows That Race Affects the Likelihood of Being Stopped and Fined for Speeding
- Sep 19, 2022The Human Perils of Scaling Smart Technologies: Evidence from Field Experiments
- Aug 23, 2022The Impact of Team Incentives on Performance in Graduate School: Evidence from Two Pilot RCTs
- Oct 26, 2021It All Starts with Beliefs: Addressing the Roots of Educational Inequities by Shifting Parental Beliefs
- May 24, 2021How Experiments with Children Inform Economics
- Dec 28, 2020The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
- Dec 14, 2020The Value of Time in the United States: Estimates from Nationwide Natural Field Experiments
- Oct 16, 2020Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions
- Sep 30, 2020Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
- Sep 8, 2020Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
- Aug 19, 2020The $100 Million Nudge: Increasing Tax Compliance of Businesses and the Self-Employed using a Natural Field Experiment
- Dec 16, 2019Do Appeals to Donor Benefits Raise More Money than Appeals to Recipient Benefits? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment with Pick.Click.Give.
- Oct 30, 2019How Can Experiments Play a Greater Role in Public Policy? 12 Proposals from an Economic Model of Scaling
- Oct 21, 2019Design and Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Field Experiments in Panel Data Settings
- Oct 21, 2019The Drivers of Social Preferences: Evidence from a Nationwide Tipping Field Experiment
- May 20, 2019The Science of Using Science: Towards an Understanding of the Threats to Scaling Experiments
- Apr 30, 2019Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself
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- Feb 26, 2018Research from Department of Economics’ John List, “The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence From Over a Million Rideshare Drivers,” cited in discussion of national development plans
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- Aug 24, 2017Graduate Students Connect at Annual Price Theory Summer Camp
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