University of Maryland , College Park
Which employer did John A. List work for from 2001 to 2004?
John A . List John August List ( born September 25 , 1968 ) is an American economist at the University of Chicago , where he serves as Kenneth C . Griffin Distinguished Service Professor ; from 2012 until 2018 , he served as Chairman of the Department of Economics . List is noted for his pioneering contributions to field experiments in economics . As detailed in his popular science book , The Why Axis ( co-authored with Uri Gneezy ) , List uses field experiments to offer new insights in various areas of economics research , such as education , private provision of public goods , social preferences , prospect theory , environmental economics , marketplace effects on corporate and government policy decisions , and multi-unit auctions . List received his bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point , and his Ph.D . from the University of Wyoming in 1996 . He 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 , Presidents Council of Economic Advisers . In 2011 List was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2015 he was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and , according to RePEc , was the top ranked economist worldwide of the 40,000 economists who graduated in the last 20 years . As of March 2021 , RePEc ranks him as the 9th most influential economist in the world . Career . He attended Sun Prairie High School , graduating in 1987 . He went on to become an Academic All-American in golf at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1990 and 1991 , while majoring in Economics , graduating in 1992 . He received his Ph.D . from the University of Wyoming in 1996 under supervision of Shelby Gerking . He began his career at the University of Central Florida as an assistant professor in 1996 . He became an associate professor in 2000 at the University of Arizona where he worked with Vernon L . Smith on furthering his field experimental methods . In 2001 he was awarded a full professorship at the University of Maryland , College Park . He held that post until 2004 , when he received an appointment as a full professor at the Economics Department of the University of Chicago . In January 2011 , List was awarded an endowed professorship at the University of Chicagos Economics Department for his work in the area of field experiments . In addition to his university career , List served as the chief economist for taxi company Uber , and later for the similar company Lyft . Awards . In 2015 , List was shortlisted for a Nobel Prize by Reuters ( alongside Charles Manski and Richard Blundell ) . List and Blundell were subsequently odds on favorites to win in betting parlors . List for his work on field experiments and Blundell for labor economics . At age 46 , List was the youngest Reuters prediction by nearly 20 years . In April 2011 List was selected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2012 , List was selected to receive the Yrjo Jahnsson Lecture Series prize , given by the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation . The award , given every 2 years by the Finnish Foundation , recognized Lists achievements to society from pioneering the use of field experiments . Ten of the previous Nineteen recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in economics . In August 2017 , List was awarded the Klein Prize International Economic Review for his work on field experiments . Six of the twenty recipient have won the Nobel Prize . In November 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Tilburg University . Tilburg University calls him a true pioneer in experimental field research , whose innovative work has finally made it possible to test behavioral economic theory in everyday practice...He has raised this research area to a higher level with his originality , expertise , and impact , and he is an inspiration to many . In 2016 , University of Ottawa bestowed the honorary doctorate to List for his pioneering work in field experiments . In 2011 List was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [ 4 ] In 2015 he was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society . In 2004 , List received the 1st Place Competitive Paper Award for his field experiment titled “Informational Cascades : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Market Professionals.” The paper was picked as the top research study in 2004 within finance by the FMA , which considered hundreds of studies . List received the 2008 Arrow Senior Prize for his field experimental work in the area of testing economic theory from the BE Press . In July 2010 , List was awarded the highest honor by the AAEA , the John Kenneth Galbraith prize . The award was given for recognition of Lists breakthrough discoveries in economics and outstanding contributions to humanity through leadership , research , and service . In particular , Lists pathbreaking work using field experiments in economics . Work . His work focuses on microeconomic issues , and includes over 200 academic publications . Among these articles are field experiments using several different markets to obtain data , including charitable fundraising activities , the Chicago Board of Trade , Costa Rican CEOs , the new automobile market , sports memorabilia markets , coin markets , auto repair markets , open air markets located everywhere—from the United States to Morocco to India , various venues on the internet , several auction settings , shopping malls , various labor markets , and grammar and high schools . Behavioral economics . Lists research on behavioral economics has focused on testing theories like gift exchange , social preferences , and prospect theory . Traditional tests of these theories relied on recruiting undergraduate students to participate in experiments for a small amount of money . List instead recruited subjects in actual marketplaces to participate in experiments , sometimes unbeknownst to even the subjects . Lists field experiments have found that gift exchange is not as powerful a motivator of labor effort as earlier research found , that social preferences are not as pronounced as prior research found , and that the divergence between Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept often called the endowment effect , predicted by prospect theory , disappears with market experience . Lists recent work in behavioral economics has found that framing can induce increased worker productivity. , and has been picked up by several corporations around the world . Environmental economics . List has published research on the impact of environmental regulation on economic production and on endangered species . Lists research has also focused on testing non-market valuation mechanisms in the field frequently used in contingent valuation and in testing different incentives to promote environmentally friendly technology adoption . He also teaches in Kiel University Research Institute in summer 2017 where he developed ideas on non-market valuation using field experiments . Charitable giving . List has also brought social preferences and value of public goods to the marketplace by testing determinants of charitable giving . List has found that a number of the traditional techniques in the philanthropy world are not well understood . For example , the higher the announced seed money the more people give . Also , matching grants increase giving , but it doesnt matter if the match is 1:1 or 3:1 . List has also found that giving is easily influenced by incentives that discount the importance of altruism in motivating giving . For example , List has found that beauty and social pressure are important motivators for giving . Some of his field experimental work on charitable fundraising were highlighted in The New York Times Magazine . In a 2009 Crains Chicago Business article , List is referred to as a rock star in the area of philanthropy . Education . Lists recent research focuses on increasing educational achievement . In 2008 he worked with Chicago Heights , IL to design cash incentives for ninth graders and their parents to increase academic performance . In 2009 he won a $10 million grant from the Griffin Foundation to study the returns to pre-school education by founding a pre-school called The Griffin Early Childhood Center and to test the impact of performance pay for teachers in Chicago Heights , IL . Lists recent education research was recently discussed in Bloomberg . List co-founded and co-directs the Thirty Million Words Center for Early Learning and Public Health along with Dana L . Suskind . Other research . List has studied the economics of discrimination , finding that discrimination in marketplaces is statistical discrimination , rarely motivated by animus . He has also investigated gender differences in competition and wages , finding that men are more likely to apply for jobs that offer incentive pay than women . He has also researched the role of gender in competition in matrilineal and patriarchal societies , finding that women in matrilineal societies opt to compete at similar levels to men in patriarchal societies . List has also used experiments to test ideas in finance . He has tested the options model , information cascades , and the equity premium puzzle with undergraduate students and professional traders . Many of these ideas were advanced by List when he taught at the Finnish School of Finance in 2007 on field experiments in Finance . Personal life . List married surgeon Dana L . Suskind in 2018 and resides with his eight children in Hyde Park , Chicago . Press . A collection of a few of the recent pieces written on Lists field experiments can be found in the following articles . - https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/business/15scene.html or - https://web.archive.org/web/20090620030335/http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_JohnList.shtml - https://web.archive.org/web/20070501110704/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17312118/site/newsweek/page/3/ - https://www.nber.org/reporter/2008number4/list.html - http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/u-of-chicago-scholar-explores-how-people-give/18041 - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3138a3fc-b3a8-11de-ae8d-00144feab49a.html Academic publications . - List , John A. , “Informed Consent in Social Science,” Science , October 21 , 2008 , 322 ( 5886 ) , p . 672 . - List , John A. , “Homo experimentalis evolves,” Science , July 11 , 2008 , 321 ( 5886 ) , pp . 207–208 . - Levitt , Steven D . and John A . List , “Homo economicus evolves,” Science , February 15 , 2008 , 319 ( 5865 ) , pp . 909–910 . - Karlan , Dean and John A . List . “Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving ? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment,” American Economic Review , ( 2007 ) , 97 ( 5 ) , pp . 1774–1793 . - Harrison , Glenn W. , John A . List , and Charles Towe , “Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments : A Case Study of Risk Aversion,” Econometrica , ( 2007 ) , 75 ( 2 ) : 433-458 . - Alevy , Jon , Michael Haigh , and John A . List . “Information Cascades : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Financial Market Professionals,” Journal of Finance , ( 2007 ) , 62 ( 1 ) : 151-180 . - List , John A . “On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games,” Journal of Political Economy , ( 2007 ) , 115 ( 3 ) : 482-494 . - List , John A . and Daniel Sturm . “How Elections Matter : Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy,” Quarterly Journal of Economics , ( 2006 ) , November 121 ( 4 ) : 1249–1281 . - Gneezy , Uri , and John A . List . “Putting Behavioral Economics to Work : Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments,” Econometrica , ( 2006 ) , September , 74 ( 5 ) : 1365–1384 . - List , John A. , “The Behavioralist Meets the Market : Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions,” Journal of Political Economy , ( 2006 ) , 114 ( 1 ) : 1-37 . - Landry , Craig , Andreas Lange , John A . List , Michael K . Price , and Nicholas Rupp . Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity : Evidence from a Field Experiment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics , ( 2006 ) , 121 ( 2 ) : 747-782 . - Haigh , Michael and List , John A . “Do Professional Traders Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion ? An Experimental Analysis,” Journal of Finance , ( 2005 ) , 60 ( 1 ) : 523-534 . - List , John A . and Michael Haigh . “A Simple Test of Expected Utility Theory Using Professional Traders,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( 2005 ) , 102 ( 3 ) : 945-948 . - List , John A . Testing Neoclassical Competitive Theory in Multi-Lateral Decentralized Markets , Journal of Political Economy ( 2004 ) , 112 ( 5 ) : 1131–1156 . - List , John A . Robert Berrens , Alok Bohara , and Joe Kerkvliet . Examining the Role of Social Isolation on Stated Preferences , American Economic Review ( 2004 ) , 94 ( 3 ) : 741-752 . - Harrison , Glenn and John A . List . Field Experiments , Journal of Economic Literature ( 2004 ) , XLII ( December ) : 1013–1059 . - List , John A . Neoclassical Theory Versus Prospect Theory : Evidence from the Marketplace , Econometrica ( 2004 ) , 72 ( 2 ) : 615-625 . - List , John A . “The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace : Evidence from the Field,” Quarterly Journal of Economics ( 2004 ) , 119 ( 1 ) : 49-89 . - List , John A . “Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies?,” Quarterly Journal of Economics ( 2003 ) , 118 ( 1 ) , 41-71 . - Pacala , Steven , Erwin Bulte , John A . List , and Simon Levin , False Alarm over Environmental False Alarms , Science ( 2003 ) , 301 ( 5637 ) , 1187–1189 . - List , John A . Preference Reversals of a Different Kind : The More is Less Phenomenon , American Economic Review ( 2002 ) , 92 ( 5 ) : 1636–1643 . - List , John A . and Lucking-Reiley , David . “The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving : Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign,” Journal of Political Economy ( 2002 ) , 110 ( 1 ) : 215-233 - List , John A . Testing Neoclassical Competitive Market Theory in the Field , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( 2002 ) , 99 ( 24 ) : 15827-15830 . - List , John A . “Do Explicit Warnings Eliminate the Hypothetical Bias in Elicitation Procedures ? Evidence from Field Auctions for Sportscards,” American Economic Review ( 2001 ) , 91 ( 5 ) : 1498–1507 . - List , John A . and Lucking-Reiley , David . “Demand Reduction in a Multi-Unit Auction : Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment,” American Economic Review ( 2000 ) , September , 90 ( 4 ) : 961-972 . - List John A . and Jason F . Shogren , “Calibration of the difference between actual and hypothetical valuations in a field experiment.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , ( 1998 ) , 37 ( 2 ) : 193-205 . External links . - John Lists Home Page - Faculty Profile : John List at the University of Maryland , College Park - Twelve Scholars Join Faculty at the University of Chicago - at the University of Maryland , College Park - New York Times article about John Lists research into charitable giving . - Bloomberg article about John Lists research in education .