NBER profile: John A. List.

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John A. List is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Public Economics and a Professor in Economics and the College and Co-Director of Graduate Admissions at the University of Chicago. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wyoming in 1996. He has also taught at the University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona, and the University of Maryland.

From May 2002 to July 2003, List served as Senior Economist for Environmental and Resource Economics at the President's Council of Economic Advisers in Washington. His primary work focused on multinational market institutions to address climate change, the Clear Skies Act, revising the Office of Management and Budget benefit cost guidelines, and the softwood lumber trade dispute between the United States and Canada.

List's current research emphasizes the use of experimental methods to address both positive and normative issues. Much of...