Professor List's 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. Merely grasping the interrelationships of factors in field settings is not enough, however, as the field experimenter must then seek to understand i) the mechanisms underlying those relationships, and ii) more distant phenomena that have the same underlying structure. Until these dual goals are achieved, one cannot reap the true rewards of field experimentation. 

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