Career
He attended Sun Prairie High School, graduating in 1987. He went on to become an Academic All American in golf at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1990 and 1991, while majoring in Economics, graduating in 1992. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming in 1996. He began his career at the University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor in 1996. He became an Associate Professor in 2000 at the University of Arizona where he worked with Vernon L. Smith on furthering his field experimental methods. In 2001 he was awarded a Full Professorship at the University of Maryland, College Park. He held that post until 2004, when he received an appointment as a Full Professor at the Economics Department of the University of Chicago. In January 2011, List was awarded an Endowed Professorship at the University of Chicago's Economics Department for his work in the area of field experiments.
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