John A. List

45.8k total citations · 10 hit papers
370 papers, 24.3k citations indexed

About

John A. List is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. List has authored 370 papers receiving a total of 24.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 179 papers in Safety Research and 93 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in John A. List's work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (173 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (93 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (72 papers). John A. List is often cited by papers focused on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (173 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (93 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (72 papers). John A. List collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. John A. List's co-authors include Steven D. Levitt, Glenn W. Harrison, Craig A. Gallet, Uri Gneezy, Daniel L. Millimet, Jason F. Shogren, Michael S. Haigh, Per G. Fredriksson, Ulrike Malmendier and Stefano DellaVigna and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John A. List

353 papers receiving 22.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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

2007 1.8k citations Steven D. Levitt, John A. List profile →
Field Experiments

2004 1.5k citations John A. List et al. Journal of Economic Literature profile →
Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies?

2003 800 citations John A. List The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
What Experimental Protocol Influence Disparities Between Actual and Hypothetical Stated Values?

2001 720 citations John A. List et al. profile →
Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving

2012 649 citations Stefano DellaVigna, John A. List et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games

2007 538 citations John A. List Journal of Political Economy profile →
Do Professional Traders Exhibit Myopic Loss Aversion? An Experimental Analysis

2005 508 citations John A. List et al. profile →
The behavioralist as tax collector: Using natural field experiments to enhance tax compliance

2017 437 citations Michael Hallsworth, John A. List et al. profile →
Multiple hypothesis testing in experimental economics

2019 256 citations John A. List, Azeem M. Shaikh et al. profile →
Do Competitive Workplaces Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Job Entry Decisions

2014 248 citations Jeffrey Flory, John A. List et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John A. List United States	75	13.0k	8.8k	5.4k	5.0k	2.3k	370	24.3k
Uri Gneezy United States	54	6.9k 0.5×	10.8k 1.2×	6.2k 1.2×	4.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	145	22.8k
James Andreoni United States	46	7.4k 0.6×	9.2k 1.0×	6.9k 1.3×	3.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	83	18.0k
Bruno S. Frey Switzerland	88	13.8k 1.1×	6.7k 0.8×	10.2k 1.9×	2.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	678	35.2k
Armin Falk Germany	58	7.1k 0.5×	8.9k 1.0×	5.8k 1.1×	4.3k 0.9×	643 0.3×	208	19.5k
Robert Sugden United Kingdom	72	10.1k 0.8×	5.6k 0.6×	5.4k 1.0×	6.8k 1.4×	968 0.4×	253	21.4k
Matthew Rabin United States	45	9.4k 0.7×	4.9k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	6.9k 1.4×	1.4k 0.6×	80	17.7k
George A. Akerlof United States	43	14.7k 1.1×	4.9k 0.6×	6.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.3×	2.3k 1.0×	99	31.2k
Cass R. Sunstein United States	100	15.5k 1.2×	2.4k 0.3×	12.1k 2.2×	3.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	858	38.3k
Eric J. Johnson United States	58	5.6k 0.4×	2.3k 0.3×	4.9k 0.9×	7.7k 1.5×	4.2k 1.9×	178	21.8k
Rachel Croson United States	50	3.3k 0.3×	5.1k 0.6×	3.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.4×	946 0.4×	111	12.4k

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List, John A.. (2025). The Experimentalist Looks within: Toward an Understanding of Within-Subject Experimental Designs. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Milkman, Katherine L., Dena M. Gromet, Ron Berman, et al.. (2024). Megastudy shows that reminders boost vaccination but adding free rides does not. Nature. 631(8019). 179–188. 12 indexed citations

Castillo, Marco, John A. List, Ragan Petrie, & Anya Samek. (2024). Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment. Journal of Political Economy. 132(12). 3942–3977. 1 indexed citations

List, John A., et al.. (2023). Multiple testing with covariate adjustment in experimental economics. Journal of Applied Econometrics. 38(6). 920–939. 8 indexed citations

List, John A., Ragan Petrie, & Anya Samek. (2023). How Experiments with Children Inform Economics. Journal of Economic Literature. 61(2). 504–564. 10 indexed citations

Charness, Gary, et al.. (2023). Generation Next: Experimentation with AI. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

Ferraro, Paul J., et al.. (2017). Do The Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments. Digital Archive @ GSU. 19 indexed citations

Levitt, Steven D., John A. List, & Sally Sadoff. (2016). The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. NBER Working Paper No. 22107.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 1 indexed citations

Hallsworth, Michael, John A. List, Robert Metcalfe, & Ivo Vlaev. (2015). The Making of Homo Honoratus: From Omission to Commission. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Al‐Ubaydli, Omar & John A. List. (2015). Do Natural Field Experiments Afford Researchers More or Less Control than Laboratory Experiments? A Simple Model. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Maniadis, Zacharias, Fabio Tufano, & John A. List. (2014). One Swallow Doesn't Make a Summer: Reply to Kataria. Econ journal watch. 11(1). 11–16. 1 indexed citations

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Al‐Ubaydli, Omar & John A. List. (2013). On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics: With A Response To Camerer. National Bureau of Economic Research. 5 indexed citations

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List, John A. & Anya Samek. (2012). Exploring the origins of charitable acts: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment with young children. Economics Letters. 118(3). 431–434. 4 indexed citations

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Flory, Jeffrey, et al.. (2012). Sex, competitiveness, and investment in offspring: On the origin of preferences. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Fryer, Roland G., Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, & Sally Sadoff. (2012). Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment. NBER Working Paper No. 18237.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 63 indexed citations

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DellaVigna, Stefano, John A. List, & Ulrike Malmendier. (2012). Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 127(1). 1–56. 649 indexed citations breakdown →

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Levitt, Steven D., John A. List, Susanne Neckermann, & Sally Sadoff. (2012). The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance. NBER Working Paper No. 18165.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 26 indexed citations

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List, John A. & Daniel L. Millimet. (2008). The Market: Catalyst for Rationality and Filter of Irrationality. The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 8(1). 37 indexed citations

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List, John A.. (2007). On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 30 indexed citations

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List, John A. & Shelby D. Gerking. (2000). Regulatory Federalism and Environmental Protection in the United States. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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