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Economics atHarvard University. He holds degrees from Harvard University (AB in economics),the London School of Economics (MSc in econometrics and mathematicaleconomics), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in economics).

He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research,where he is Research Associate in the Asset Pricing, Economic Fluctuations, andAging Working Groups. His research focuses on the topics of behavioraleconomics, intertemporal choice, macroeconomics, and household finance, and heleads Harvard University's Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative.

He serves on several editorial boards, as well as the PensionResearch Council (Wharton), Harvard's Pension Investment Committee, and theBoard of the Russell Sage Foundation. He has previously served on the boards ofthe Health and Retirement Study (National Institutes of Health) and the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

He is a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also arecipient of the T. W. Schultz Prize from the University of Chicago and theTIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on LifelongFinancial Security. In recognition of his teaching excellence, he has beenawarded Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Prize and a Harvard College Professorship.

John A. List is the Kenneth C. GriffinDistinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, andChairman of the Department of Economics. He received his BS in economics fromthe University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and his PhD in economics from theUniversity of Wyoming. Before joining the University of Chicago in 2005, he wasa professor at the University of Central Florida, University of Arizona, andUniversity of Maryland. He also served in the White House on the Council ofEconomic Advisers from 2002-2003, and is a Research Associate at the NBER.

List was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts andSciences in 2011, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015. He alsoreceived the Arrow Prize for Senior Economists in 2008, the Kenneth GalbraithAward in 2010, the Yrjo Jahnsson Lecture Prize in 2012, and the Klein LecturePrize in 2016. He received an honorary doctorate from Tilburg University in2014 and from the University of Ottawa in 2017. In addition, List was named a Top50 Innovator in the Non-Profit Times for 2015 and 2016 for his work oncharitable giving.

His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with aparticular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive andnormative issues. For decades his field experimental research has focused onissues related to the inner workings of markets, the effects of variousincentive schemes on market equilibria and allocations, and how behavioraleconomics can augment the standard economic model. This includes research intowhy inner city schools fail, why people discriminate, why people give tocharity, why firms fail, why women make less money than men in labor markets,and why people generally do what they do.

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