Professor John A. List at the annual Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) 2022 conference

9-10.30am (AEST)
Panel 1: Measurement in early education: The who's, what's, where's and when's.

Chair:
Professor Michael Price - University of Alabama and
The Australian National University.

Panellists:
Professor John A. List - University of Chicago and
The Australian National University
Professor Dana L. Suskind, MD - University of Chicago
Professor Sharon Goldfeld - Murdoch Children's Research Institute

11am-12.30pm (AEST)
Panel 2: Putting research into practice - Using data to inform education policy

Chair:
Professor John A. List - University of Chicago and
The Australian National University

Panellists:
Professor Ragan Petrie - Texas A&M University
Professor Marco Castillo - Texas A&M University
Dr Sutanuka Roy - The Australian National University

2-3.30pm (AEST)

Named in honour of Dr John C. Mitchell OAM, this lecture delves into Professor John A. List's book The Voltage Effect.

Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take off? The answer comes down to a single question - Can the idea scale?

"In his book, Professor List argues that for an idea to have a widespread impact, it must achieve 'high voltage' - the ability to be replicated at scale. By understanding how scaling works, he says, we can drive change in our schools, workplaces, communities, and society at large. Because a better world can only be built at scale." - Wall Street Journal.

Grab a copy of The Voltage Effect and meet the author himself.

Professor List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, and holds the appointment of Distinguished Professor of Economics at The Australian National University.

His research focuses on combining field experiments with economic theory to deepen our understanding of the economic science. In the early 1990s, Professor List pioneered field experiments as a methodology for testing behavioural theories and learning about behavioural principles that are shared across different domains. To obtain data for his field experiments, Professor List has made use of several different markets, including charitable fundraising activities, the sports trading card industry, the ride-share industry, and the education sector, to highlight a few. This collective research has led to collaborative work with several different schools and charities, as well as firms, including: Lyft, Uber, United Airlines, Virgin Airlines, Humana, Sears, Kmart, Facebook, Google, General Motors, Tinder, Citadel, Walmart and several non-profits.

His research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several published textbooks. He co-authored the international best seller, The Why Axis, in 2013, and is author to a new best seller, The Voltage Effect.

Professor List was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015. List received the 2010 Kenneth Galbraith Award, the 2008 Arrow Prize for Senior Economists for his research in behavioural economics in the field, and was the 2012 Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture Prize recipient. He is a current Editor of the Journal of Political Economy.