Our Team

John A. List

John is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics. His passion is using field experiments to explore economic questions. He views field experiments as representing a unique manner in which to obtain data because they force the researcher to understand everyday phenomena, many of which we stumble upon frequently.

Research Professionals

  • Faith Fatchen, Research Professional

    Faith graduated from California State University Chico in 2022 with a B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Mathematics. She is interested in behavioral, education, and health economics. She is particularly interested in the complexity of economic opportunity and inclusion. Email: ffatchen@uchicago.edu

  • Jiwon Hwang, Research Professional

    Jiwon graduated from Yonsei University in 2023 with a B.A in Economics. She has a background in Game Theory and is interested in the intersections of education and poverty.

    Email: jwhwang1279@uchicago.edu

  • Franco Albino, Research Professional

    Franco graduated from the University of CEMA in 2023 with a B.A in Economics, while working as a Research Assistant at the Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE), launched by John in 2019. He is interested in addressing research questions that fall within the field of applied microeconomics, using the experimental method. He is currently working on a project on multiple hypothesis testing, and a project on discrimination in the context of baseball. Email: fdalbino@uchicago.edu

  • Nour Abdelbaki, Research Professional

    Nour holds an M.A. in Computational Social Science with a concentration in Economics from the University of Chicago (2025). She earned her B.Sc. in Economics from Cairo University in 2020, with minors in Statistics and Computational Social Science. Her academic and research background combines economics, public policy, and programming, with a strong focus on applied microeconomic questions. She is particularly interested in the design and empirical evaluation of field experiments and in leveraging administrative data using experimental and quasi-experimental methods, with applications in labor economics, education, health, and discrimination.

    Email: nourabdelbaki@uchicago.edu

  • Paul Kirch, Research Professional

    Paul graduated from Barcelona School of Economics with a M.Sc. in Economics and Finance. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy and Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is interested in econometric theory and its application to experimental research in education and behavioral economics.

    Email: paulkirch@uchicago.edu

  • Juliana Lalinde, Research Professional

    Juliana graduated from EAFIT University in 2024 with a B.A. on Economics and B.S. in Mathematical Engineering. She is interested in applied microeconomics questions, with a special focus on education, labor and inequality, and how the experimental method can be used to address them.

    Email: jlalindev@uchicago.edu