were highlighted in The New York Times Magazine. In a 2009 Crain's Chicago Business article, List is referred to as a "rock star" in the area of philanthropy. In his role as Visiting Robert F. Hartsook Chair in Fundraising at Indiana's Lilly School of Philanthropy, he works to apply academic research for the benefit of fundraising practitioners. He also serves as principal investigator for the Science of Philanthropy Initiative. Education List's recent research focuses on increasing educational achievement. In 2008 he worked with Chicago Heights, IL to design cash incentives for ninth graders and their parents to increase academic performance. In 2009 he won a $10 million grant from the Griffin Foundation to study the returns to pre-school education by founding a pre-school called The Griffin Early Childhood Center and to test the impact of performance pay for teachers in Chicago Heights, IL. List's recent education research was recently discussed in Bloomberg. List co-founded and co-directs the Thirty Million Words Center for Early Learning and Public Health along with Dana L. Suskind. Other research List has studied the economics of discrimination, finding that discrimination in marketplaces is statistical discrimination, rarely motivated by animus. He has also investigated gender differences in competition and wages, finding that men are more likely to apply for jobs that offer incentive pay than women. He has also researched the role of gender in competition in matrilineal and patriarchal societies, finding that women in matrilineal societies opt to compete at similar levels to men in patriarchal societies. List has also used experiments to test ideas in finance. He has tested the options model, information cascades, and the equity premium puzzle with undergraduate students and professional traders. Many of these ideas were advanced by List when he taught at the Finnish School of Finance in 2007 on field experiments in Finance. Personal life List married surgeon Dana L. Suskind in 2018 and resides with his eight children in Hyde Park, Chicago. Press A collection of a few of the recent pieces written on List's field experiments can be found in the following articles. The New York Times or The Chicago Chronicle The University of Chicago www.philanthropy.com Periscope The Reporter Archives Letter to Our Readers How an inconvenient economist upset the cool crowd Academic publications List, John A., “Informed Consent in Social Science,” Science, October 21, 2008, 322(5886), p. 672. List, John A., “Homo experimentalis evolves,” Science, July