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John List

Global rank #17 99%

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Primary Field: Public (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://voices.uchicago.edu/jlist/

First Publication: 1998

Most Recent: 2026

RePEc ID: pli176 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 4.32 2.48 3.02 0.00 26.53
Last 10 Years 10.69 7.57 9.15 0.00 68.99
All Time 42.97 36.36 29.92 0.00 286.18

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 157
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 133.17

Publications (157)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2026 Why Don’t Struggling Students Do Their Homework? Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation Journal of Political Economy S 5
2026 The Economics of Scaling Early Childhood Programs: Lessons from the Chicago School Journal of Political Economy S 1
2025 Do equal employment opportunity statements encourage racial minorities? evidence from a large natural field experiment European Economic Review B 2
2024 Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment Journal of Political Economy S 4
2024 Toward an understanding of tax amnesty take-up: Evidence from a natural field experiment Journal of Public Economics A 5
2023 A Glimpse into the world of high capacity givers: Experimental evidence from a university capital campaign Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2023 The $100 million nudge: Increasing tax compliance of firms using a natural field experiment Journal of Public Economics A 5
2023 Can wishful thinking explain evidence for overconfidence? An experiment on belief updating Oxford Economic Papers C 6
2023 Left-Digit Bias at Lyft Review of Economic Studies S 4
2023 Multiple testing with covariate adjustment in experimental economics Journal of Applied Econometrics B 3
2022 Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work American Economic Review S 4
2022 Toward An Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment Economic Journal A 4
2022 Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Framing: A Field Experiment American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 4
2022 Incentives to Eat Healthily: Evidence from a Grocery Store Field Experiment Economica C 3
2022 Time and risk preferences of children predict health behaviors but not BMI Economics Letters C 4
2022 The impact of team incentives on performance in graduate school: Evidence from two pilot RCTs Economics Letters C 2
2021 Incentive spillovers in the workplace: Evidence from two field experiments Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2021 Do financial incentives aimed at decreasing interhousehold inequality increase intrahousehold inequality? Journal of Public Economics A 3
2021 Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much? Review of Economic Studies S 5
2020 Toward an Understanding of the Welfare Effects of Nudges: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Workplace Economic Journal A 3
2020 The Effect of Early-Childhood Education on Social Preferences Journal of Political Economy S 4
2020 Risk preferences of children and adolescents in relation to gender, cognitive skills, soft skills, and executive functions Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 5
2020 How can Bill and Melinda Gates increase other people's donations to fund public goods? Journal of Public Economics A 2
2020 Leveraging upfront payments to curb employee misbehavior: Evidence from a natural field experiment European Economic Review B 2
2020 The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains Journal of Political Economy S 3
2020 Got Milk? Using Nudges to Reduce Consumption of Added Sugar American Journal of Agricultural Economics A 3
2020 2017 KLEIN LECTURE: THE SCIENCE OF USING SCIENCE: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE THREATS TO SCALABILITY International Economic Review B 3
2019 Toward an understanding of the development of time preferences: Evidence from field experiments Journal of Public Economics A 6
2019 Theory of mind among disadvantaged children: Evidence from a field experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 5
2019 Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself American Economic Review: Insights A 6
2019 Multiple hypothesis testing in experimental economics Experimental Economics A 3
2019 The Dozen Things Experimental Economists Should Do (More of) Southern Economic Journal C 3
2018 On the cultural basis of gender differences in negotiation Experimental Economics A 5
2018 Gender, age, and competition: A disappearing gap? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2018 Do financial incentives crowd out intrinsic motivation to perform on standardized tests? Economics of Education Review B 3
2018 TESTING THE THEORY OF MULTITASKING: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL FIELD EXPERIMENT IN CHINESE FACTORIES International Economic Review B 4
2017 Learned generosity? An artefactual field experiment with parents and their children Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2017 From personalized exchange towards anonymous trade: A field experiment on the workings of the invisible hand Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 5
2017 Voting to Tell Others Review of Economic Studies S 4
2017 What Can We Learn from Experiments? Understanding the Threats to the Scalability of Experimental Results American Economic Review S 3
2017 Discrimination among pre-school children: Field experimental evidence Economics Letters C 3
2017 The behavioralist as tax collector: Using natural field experiments to enhance tax compliance Journal of Public Economics A 4
2017 Experimental Economics in the Journal of Political Economy Journal of Political Economy S 1
2017 Introduction Journal of Political Economy S 2
2016 Supply and Demand for Discrimination: Strategic Revelation of Own Characteristics in a Trust Game American Economic Review S 2
2016 The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 4
2016 Dishonesty: From parents to children European Economic Review B 5
2016 The effects of group composition in a strategic environment: Evidence from a field experiment European Economic Review B 3
2015 FIELD EXPERIMENTS ON THE ANCHORING OF ECONOMIC VALUATIONS Economic Inquiry C 3
2015 Carrots That Look Like Sticks: Toward an Understanding of Multitasking Incentive Schemes Southern Economic Journal C 4
2015 Battle of the Sexes: How Sex Ratios Affect Female Bargaining Power Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2015 Do Competitive Workplaces Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Job Entry Decisions Review of Economic Studies S 3
2015 Principles of (Behavioral) Economics American Economic Review S 2
2015 Do Natural Field Experiments Afford Researchers More or Less Control Than Laboratory Experiments? American Economic Review S 2
2015 Framing manipulations in contests: A natural field experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2015 The behavioralist as nutritionist: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve child food choice and consumption Journal of Health Economics B 2
2014 Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education American Economic Review S 3
2014 Consequentiality: A Theoretical and Experimental Exploration of a Single Binary Choice Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists A 3
2014 One Swallow Doesn't Make a Summer: New Evidence on Anchoring Effects American Economic Review S 3
2014 Toward an understanding of why suggestions work in charitable fundraising: Theory and evidence from a natural field experiment Journal of Public Economics A 2
2014 Field experiments in the developed world: an introduction Oxford Review of Economic Policy C 2
2013 Gender, Competitiveness, and Socialization at a Young Age: Evidence From a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society Review of Economics and Statistics A 5
2013 Consumers’ misunderstanding of health insurance Journal of Health Economics B 13
2013 The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity American Economic Review S 4
2013 Guest Editors’ Preface to the Special Symposium on Field Experiments Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 6
2013 A DYNAMIC EXPLANATION OF THE WILLINGNESS TO PAY AND WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT DISPARITY Economic Inquiry C 3
2013 Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant Journal of Political Economy S 3
2013 Exploring the origins of charitable acts: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment with young children Economics Letters C 2
2012 Exploring whether behavior in context-free experiments is predictive of behavior in the field: Evidence from lab and field experiments in rural Sierra Leone Economics Letters C 5
2012 Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2012 Equity Aversion: Social Norms and the Desire to Be Ahead American Economic Journal: Microeconomics B 3
2012 Empirical implementation of nonparametric first-price auction models Journal of Econometrics A 5
2011 Stakes Matter in Ultimatum Games American Economic Review S 5
2011 Introduction to Charitable Giving and Fundraising Special issue Journal of Public Economics A 2
2011 Using Artefactual Field Experiments to Learn about the Incentives for Sustainable Forest Use in Developing Economies American Economic Review S 5
2011 Small matches and charitable giving: Evidence from a natural field experiment Journal of Public Economics A 3
2011 Small matches and charitable giving: Evidence from a natural field experiment Journal of Public Economics A 3
2011 Auctions with resale when private values are uncertain: Evidence from the lab and field International Journal of Industrial Organization B 3
2011 Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2011 Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth American Economic Review S 3
2011 Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players American Economic Review S 3
2011 Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience American Economic Review S 1
2011 Charitable donations are more responsive to stock market booms than busts Economics Letters C 2
2011 Are CEOs expected utility maximizers? Journal of Econometrics A 2
2011 So you want to run an experiment, now what? Some simple rules of thumb for optimal experimental design Experimental Economics A 3
2010 THAT’S NEWS TO ME! INFORMATION REVELATION IN PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION MARKETS Economic Inquiry C 3
2010 Is a Donor in Hand Better Than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment American Economic Review S 5
2010 Investment Under Uncertainty: Testing the Options Model with Professional Traders Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2009 Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future European Economic Review B 2
2009 The role of social connections in charitable fundraising: Evidence from a natural field experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2009 An introduction to field experiments in economics Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1
2009 Rebate rules in threshold public good provision Journal of Public Economics A 4
2008 Do Women Supply More Public Goods Than Men? Preliminary Experimental Evidence from Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies American Economic Review S 4
2008 Examining the role of fairness in high stakes allocation decisions Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2008 Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study American Economic Review S 3
2008 Introduction to field experiments in economics with applications to the economics of charity Experimental Economics A 1
2008 Matching and challenge gifts to charity: evidence from laboratory and natural field experiments Experimental Economics A 2
2007 Information Cascades: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Financial Market Professionals Journal of Finance A 3
2007 Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment American Economic Review S 2
2007 A fundraising mechanism inspired by historical tontines: Theory and experimental evidence Journal of Public Economics A 3
2007 Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field Canadian Journal of Economics C 2
2007 A Test of Diminishing Marginal Value Economica C 3
2007 On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games Journal of Political Economy S 1
2006 The Uncertainty Effect: When a Risky Prospect is Valued Less than its Worst Possible Outcome Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2006 Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment Quarterly Journal of Economics S 5
2006 Non-renewable resource prices: Deterministic or stochastic trends? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 3
2006 Using Hicksian Surplus Measures to Examine Consistency of Individual Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 1
2006 Shadow prices, environmental stringency, and international competitiveness European Economic Review B 3
2006 How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2006 Friend or Foe? A Natural Experiment of the Prisoner's Dilemma Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
2006 The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions Journal of Political Economy S 1
2005 Experimental approaches to public economics: guest editors' introduction Journal of Public Economics A 2
2005 The effect of varying the causes of environmental problems on stated WTP values: evidence from a field study Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 4
2005 Demand Reduction in Multi-Unit Auctions: Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment: Reply American Economic Review S 3
2005 Do Professional Traders Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion? An Experimental Analysis Journal of Finance A 2
2005 Investigating Risky Choices Over Losses Using Experimental Data Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 4
2005 Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists Southern Economic Journal C 3
2004 Examining the Role of Social Isolation on Stated Preferences American Economic Review S 4
2004 Do causes of environmental problems affect Hicksian equivalent surplus? Evidence from the field Economics Letters C 4
2004 Is foreign direct investment attracted to 'knowledge creators'? Applied Economics C 2
2004 The multiplier effect of globalization Economics Letters C 3
2004 Chasing the smokestack: strategic policymaking with multiple instruments Regional Science and Urban Economics B 3
2004 Substitutability, experience, and the value disparity: evidence from the marketplace Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 1
2004 Effects of environmental regulation on foreign and domestic plant births: is there a home field advantage? Journal of Urban Economics A 3
2004 The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
2004 Testing Neoclassical Competitive Theory in Multilateral Decentralized Markets Journal of Political Economy S 1
2004 Valuation on the Frontier: Calibrating Actual and Hypothetical Statements of Value American Journal of Agricultural Economics A 2
2003 Trade liberalization, corruption, and environmental policy formation: theory and evidence Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 3
2003 Bureaucratic corruption, environmental policy and inbound US FDI: theory and evidence Journal of Public Economics A 3
2003 Effects of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Plant Births: Evidence from a Propensity Score Matching Estimator Review of Economics and Statistics A 4
2003 A Natural Experiment on the ‘Race to the Bottom’ Hypothesis: Testing for Stochastic Dominance in Temporal Pollution Trends Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
2003 The impact of challenge gifts on charitable giving: an experimental investigation Economics Letters C 2
2003 Effects of air quality regulation on the destination choice of relocating plants Oxford Economic Papers C 3
2003 Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
2003 The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Real Progress or Misspecified Models? Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2003 Cigarette demand: a meta‐analysis of elasticities Health Economics B 2
2002 "Beggar Thy Neighbor": Testing for Free Riding in State-Level Endangered Species Expenditures. Public Choice B 3
2002 Aggregation bias in the economic model of crime Economics Letters C 2
2002 Preference Reversals of a Different Kind: The "More Is Less" Phenomenon American Economic Review S 1
2002 Gender differences in revealed risk taking: evidence from mutual fund investors Economics Letters C 3
2002 Calibration of Willingness-to-Accept Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 2
2002 The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign Journal of Political Economy S 2
2001 Do Explicit Warnings Eliminate the Hypothetical Bias in Elicitation Procedures? Evidence from Field Auctions for Sportscards American Economic Review S 1
2001 US county-level determinants of inbound FDI: evidence from a two-step modified count data model International Journal of Industrial Organization B 1
2001 A random nth-price auction Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2001 Optimal Institutional Arrangements for Transboundary Pollutants in a Second-Best World: Evidence from a Differential Game with Asymmetric Players Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 2
2001 Determinants of securing academic interviews after tenure denial: evidence from a zero-inflated Poisson model Applied Economics C 1
2000 Learning to Accept in Ultimatum Games: Evidence from an Experimental Design that Generates Low Offers Experimental Economics A 2
2000 The Effects of Environmental Regulations on Foreign Direct Investment Journal of Environmental Economics and Management A 2
2000 Demand Reduction in Multiunit Auctions: Evidence from a Sportscard Field Experiment American Economic Review S 2
1999 The environmental Kuznets curve: does one size fit all? Ecological Economics B 2
1999 Have Air Pollutant Emissions Converged Among U.S. Regions? Evidence from Unit Root Tests Southern Economic Journal C 1
1998 A method for valuing global ecosystem services Ecological Economics B 4
1998 The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: Comment. American Economic Review S 2
1998 Hypothetical-actual bid calibration of a multigood auction Economics Letters C 3
1998 Elasticities of beer demand revisited Economics Letters C 2
1998 Calibration of the difference between actual and hypothetical valuations in a field experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2