John List

List’s research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive and normative issues. For decades his field experimental research has focused on issues related to the inner-workings of markets, the effects of various incentives schemes on market equilibria and allocations, how behavioral economics can augment the standard economic model, on early childhood education and interventions, and most recently on the gender earnings gap in the gig economy (using evidence from rideshare drivers). List received the 2010 Kenneth Galbraith Award and 2008 Arrow Prize for Senior Economists for his research in behavioral economics in the field. List has served as a Senior Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2002-2004), and serves as an IZA Institute for the Study of Labor Research Fellow and RFF Resources for the Future University Fellow.

His research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several published books, including the 2013 international best-seller, The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (with Uri Gneezy).

Affiliated Organizations:
-American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member
-Econometric Society, Fellow
-Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Robert F. Hartsook Chair