John List

61 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-1740-3848

University of Chicago, ANU, & NBER , USA

Publications

• The Economics of Scaling Early Childhood Programs: Lessons from the Chicago School — Journal of Political Economy 2026
• Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development — American Economic Review 2026
• Why Don’t Struggling Students Do Their Homework? Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation — Journal of Political Economy 2026
• The making of Homo Honoratus: From omission to commission — Journal of Consumer Psychology 2024
• Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment — Journal of Political Economy 2024
• Left-Digit Bias at Lyft — The Review of Economic Studies 2023
• Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work — American Economic Review 2022
• The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers — The Review of Economic Studies 2021
• When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment — Management Science 2021
• The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains — Journal of Political Economy 2020
• The Effect of Early-Childhood Education on Social Preferences — Journal of Political Economy 2020
• On the Role of Group Size in Tournaments: Theory and Evidence from Laboratory and Field Experiments — Management Science 2020
• Chief for a Day: Elite Capture and Management Performance in a Field Experiment in Sierra Leone — Management Science 2018
• Voting to Tell Others — The Review of Economic Studies 2017
• Experimental Economics in the Journal of Political Economy — Journal of Political Economy 2017
• Introduction — Journal of Political Economy 2017
• What Can We Learn from Experiments? Understanding the Threats to the Scalability of Experimental Results — American Economic Review 2017
• Supply and Demand for Discrimination: Strategic Revelation of Own Characteristics in a Trust Game — American Economic Review 2016
• Using Field Experiments in Accounting and Finance — Journal of Accounting Research 2016
• Do Competitive Workplaces Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Job Entry Decisions — The Review of Economic Studies 2015
• Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment — Management Science 2015
• Do Natural Field Experiments Afford Researchers More or Less Control Than Laboratory Experiments? — American Economic Review 2015
• Principles of (Behavioral) Economics — American Economic Review 2015
• Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education — American Economic Review 2014
• One Swallow Doesn't Make a Summer: New Evidence on Anchoring Effects — American Economic Review 2014
• The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity — American Economic Review 2013
• Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant — Journal of Political Economy 2013
• The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations — Management Science 2012
• Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2012
• Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth — American Economic Review 2011
• Editorial Statement: Behavioral Economics — Management Science 2011
• Stakes Matter in Ultimatum Games — American Economic Review 2011
• Using Artefactual Field Experiments to Learn about the Incentives for Sustainable Forest Use in Developing Economies — American Economic Review 2011
• Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience — American Economic Review 2011
• Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players — American Economic Review 2011
• What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments — Econometrica 2010
• Is a Donor in Hand Better Than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment — American Economic Review 2010
• Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence From a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society — Econometrica 2009
• Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study — American Economic Review 2008
• Do Women Supply More Public Goods Than Men? Preliminary Experimental Evidence from Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies — American Economic Review 2008
• On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games — Journal of Political Economy 2007
• Information Cascades: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Financial Market Professionals — The Journal of Finance 2007
• Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of Risk Aversion — Econometrica 2007
• Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment — American Economic Review 2007
• Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006
• The Uncertainty Effect: When a Risky Prospect is Valued Less than its Worst Possible Outcome — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006
• How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2006
• The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions — Journal of Political Economy 2006
• Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments — Econometrica 2006
• Do Professional Traders Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion? An Experimental Analysis — The Journal of Finance 2005
• Demand Reduction in Multi-Unit Auctions: Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment: Reply — American Economic Review 2005
• Neoclassical Theory Versus Prospect Theory: Evidence from the Marketplace — Econometrica 2004
• Examining the Role of Social Isolation on Stated Preferences — American Economic Review 2004
• Testing Neoclassical Competitive Theory in Multilateral Decentralized Markets — Journal of Political Economy 2004
• The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2004
• Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2003
• Preference Reversals of a Different Kind: The "More Is Less" Phenomenon — American Economic Review 2002
• The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign — Journal of Political Economy 2002
• Do Explicit Warnings Eliminate the Hypothetical Bias in Elicitation Procedures? Evidence from Field Auctions for Sportscards — American Economic Review 2001
• Demand Reduction in Multiunit Auctions: Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment — American Economic Review 2000
• Do The Effects of Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments — The Review of Economic Studies