John A. List

Research interests

Publications

• Multiple hypothesis testing in experimental economics

  Experimental Economics · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-018-09597-5

• The Effect of Early-Childhood Education on Social Preferences

  Journal of Political Economy · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1086/706858

• The behavioralist as tax collector: Using natural field experiments to enhance tax compliance

  Journal of Public Economics · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.02.003

• Redefine statistical significance

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z

• The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.3386/w18392

• Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving

  The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr050

• Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of Risk Aversion

  Econometrica · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00753.x

• What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World?

  The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.21.2.153

• Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

  American Economic Review · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.97.5.1774

• On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games

  Journal of Political Economy · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1086/519249

• Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments

  Econometrica · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00707.x

• Do Professional Traders Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion? An Experimental Analysis

  The Journal of Finance · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2005.00737.x

• The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field

  The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1162/003355304772839524

• Field Experiments

  Journal of Economic Literature · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1257/0022051043004577

• Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies?

  The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1162/00335530360535144

• Trade liberalization, corruption, and environmental policy formation: theory and evidence

  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0095-0696(03)00025-1

• Gender differences in revealed risk taking: evidence from mutual fund investors

  Economics Letters · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(02)00045-9

• The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign

  Journal of Political Economy · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1086/324392

• Do Explicit Warnings Eliminate the Hypothetical Bias in Elicitation Procedures? Evidence from Field Auctions for Sportscards

  American Economic Review · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.91.5.1498

• What Experimental Protocol Influence Disparities Between Actual and Hypothetical Stated Values?

  Environmental and Resource Economics · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012791822804

• The Effects of Environmental Regulations on Foreign Direct Investment

  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1006/jeem.1999.1095

• The environmental Kuznets curve: does one size fit all?

  Ecological Economics · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8009(99)00064-6

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