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John A. List

University of Chicago | 773.702.9811 | jlist@uchicago.edu

John List received his PhD from the University of Wyoming and is currently the Homer J. Livingstone Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. List has been at the forefront of environmental economics and has served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers for Environmental and Resource Economics. He is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on experimental economics. List has pioneered work using field experiments in which he developed scientific methods for testing economic theory directly in the marketplace. He received the Kenneth Galbraith Award in 2010 and the 2008 Arrow Prize for Senior Economists for his research on behavioral economics in the field. His work has provided insight on such issues as pricing behavior, market structure, the valuation of nonmarketed goods and services, the impact of environmental regulation, the economics of charitable giving, and the impact of incentives on education and weight loss. Anup Malani

University of Chicago | 773.702.9602 | amalani@uchicago.edu

Anup Malani is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and a professor at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. He is an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Malani teaches law and economics, health law, food and drug law, insurance law, bankruptcy, contracts, corporations, and federal budget policy. His research interests include law and economics (welfare evaluation of legal rules and empirical methods); health economics and policy (valuing health insurance and medical technology, control of infectious disease, medical malpractice and pharmaceutical products liability, conflicts of interest in medical research, placebo effects, and drug regulation); and corporate law and finance (the role of nonprofit firms and corporate philanthropy). He has had research articles published in major law, economics, medical, and science journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Archives of Internal Medicine, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His writing can also be found in popular media, such as NPR, Forbes, and the Chicago Tribune. Malani has a JD and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. In 2001, he served as a law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the US Supreme Court. He serves on the boards of the American Law & Economics Association and the University of Chicago Press. Wallace E. Oates

University of Maryland | 301.405.3496 | oates@econ.umd.edu

Wallace Oates is distinguished university professor, emeritus, at the University of Maryland. Previously, he taught at Princeton University from 1965 to 1979. He has

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