I just released a new working paper!
“Don’t Give Up on Lab Experiments: Why the Field Still Needs the Lab”
Available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...
CfP: 2026 Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) Conference in Chicago (September 2026)
For more conferences, please check our page: https://statatexblog.com/conferences
Have you taken a Lyft, shopped at Walmart, or used Facebook in the last decade? You may have been part of a @johnlist.bsky.social experiment.
On The Pie, List discusses his new book Experimental Economics: Theory in Practice and what real-world experiments reveal about behavior.
It turns out that certain combinations of tau and alpha are consistent with risk mattering less.
Surprise: the model also provides an explanation for the uncertainty effect, a finding that Uri Gneezy, @johnlist.bsky.social, and I wrote up 20 years ago. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
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This breaks my heart.
Our new study just out in the @nber.org. We use a natural field experiment from my time back at Lyft to show that nonlinear pricing isn't just a contract design problem. It's a behavioral intervention problem too.
Last call for those interested in joining my team and me in Buenos Aires for the Chicago School in Experimental Economics, November 4-8, 2026!
There is no program fee, and financial assistance for accommodations is available. We will go over my new textbook!
voices.uchicago.edu/jlist/the-ch...
Lecturing on discrimination this week and this study will be one discussion point: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...
Big data show that minority drivers are 24–33% more likely to be cited and paid 23–34% higher fines, not explained by differences in offense rates, accident risk, or re-offense rates.
Excited to be on an ESA panel about the future of experimental economics at the meetings this July in LA.
Even creating a new paper for the occasion! "Don't Give Up on Lab Experiments: The Deep Complementarity of Lab and Field Experiments."
Hope to see you in LA: sites.google.com/view/esa2026...
