John A. List, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

John A. List

American economist

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1968

Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Profession: professor, economist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About 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 bachelor's 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, President's 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.
  • According to IDEAS/RePEc, as of 2015, he was the top ranked economist worldwide of the 40,000 economists who graduated in the last 20 years.

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