John List

1 month ago | freakonomics.com | Steven Levitt |Reginald Dwayne Betts |John List |Jill Lepore

It was 20 years ago this week that Reginald Dwayne Betts was released from prison. And that’s a great excuse to replay our conversation from 2023. This is a very special episode for me. I had never met Dwayne before this conversation, but I was so impressed by him that we stayed in touch, became friends, and I’ve even joined the board of the organization Freedom Reads. He’s truly one of the most remarkable and likable people that I’ve ever known.

Dec 4, 2024 | issues.org | Omar Al-Ubaydli |John List |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

During the bloodiest battles of the First World War, a young French sergeant named André Maginot was injured in the fighting, earning him a medal for valor. He later rose to the position of French minister of war and became famous for building a series of defensive fortifications along the Franco-German border. The design of the Maginot Line, as it came to be known, was not the result of abstract musings.

Aug 16, 2024 | nber.org | John List |Ioannis Pragidis |Michael Price

This RCT was registered in the American Economic Association Registry for randomized control trials under trial number AEARCTR-0011882. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. John A. List John List is the Chief Economist at Walmart but this research is not part of work at Walmart.

Jun 26, 2024 | nature.com | Katherine L. Milkman |Sean Ellis |Dena M. Gromet |Youngwoo Jung |Rayyan S. Mobarak |Ron Berman | +4 more

AbstractEncouraging routine COVID-19 vaccinations is likely to be a crucial policy challenge for decades to come. To avert hundreds of thousands of unnecessary hospitalizations and deaths, adoption will need to be higher than it was in the autumn of 2022 or 2023, when less than one-fifth of Americans received booster vaccines1,2. One approach to encouraging vaccination is to eliminate the friction of transportation hurdles.

Feb 14, 2024 | nature.com | John List

AbstractSocial scientists have increasingly turned to the experimental method to understand human behaviour. One critical issue that makes solving social problems difficult is scaling up the idea from a small group to a larger group in more diverse situations. The urgency of scaling policies impacts us every day, whether it is protecting the health and safety of a community or enhancing the opportunities of future generations.