![]() ![]() I lived just south of Chicago in a city called Flossmoor. LIST: When I moved to Chicago, I became very interested in public education largely because I saw the problems of public education all around me. List grew up in Wisconsin, went to college there and in Wyoming, then taught in Florida and a few other places. LIST: My primary research goes to the field and runs field experiments on issues like: Why do people give to charitable causes? Why do people discriminate against one another? Why do women earn less money than men? ![]() Okay John, so tell us a bit about your work. JOHN LIST: Stephen Dubner, how are you doing, my friend?ĭUBNER: I’m doing great. He’s an economist at the University of Chicago. Steve Levitt is my Freakonomics friend and co-author. Roland Fryer, John List and I went out and - really John more than us - started a pre-school, with the idea that if we were really smart and really thoughtful we could do things for three-, four- and five-year-olds that would change their lives and maybe could be used by other people to change a whole lot of lives all across the world. LEVITT: Yeah, I think we regret it a little bit. So, Levitt, I understand you’ve gotten into the early-education business? LEVITT: Yeah, because the traffic in New York is so terrible that I stay away.ĭUBNER: Why are you here? You meeting with the Pope today?ĭUBNER: Oh, you meeting with the U.N. STEVEN LEVITT: Dubner, how are you doing?ĭUBNER: We don’t often get to do this, sit down face-to-face. ![]()
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