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www.sjsu.edu/economics | DMH 146 [email protected] | 408-924-5400 The Department of Economics invites students, faculty, and the general public to consider intellectual arguments on controversial topics. This series fosters the tradition of higher education to challenge ideas and develop critical thinking in an environment of respect for intellectual discourse. Our goal is that you engage critical thinking skills to reach your own informed position on controversial issues. We invite you to attend, relax, ponder, and enjoy the thought process. For more information, please contact: [email protected] Tuesday, April 14th Student Union Theater 5:15–6:45p.m. Free and open to the public John A. List, Ph.D. Professor, University of Chicago “What can we learn from Uber? Three Large Scale Field Experiments on Tipping, Apologies, and the Gender Pay Gap” John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wyoming. List joined the UChicago faculty in 2005, and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2012-2018. Prior to joining UChicago, he was a professor at the University of Central Florida, University of Arizona, and University of Maryland. His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive and normative issues. His research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several published books, including the 2013 international best-seller, The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (with Uri Gneezy). Field experiments with firms have become an important creator of knowledge in the social sciences. In this lecture, John will focus on one such partnership in the ride-share industry: his work with Uber. He will focus on 3 areas: the economics of tipping, the economics of apologies, and the economics of the gender pay gap in the gig economy. All three field experiments have driven company decisions and shed new light on important issues within economics. Department of Economics presents David S. Saurman Provocative Lecture Series 2020
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www.sjsu.edu/economics | DMH [email protected] | 408-924-5400
The Department of Economics invites students, faculty, and the general public to consider intellectualarguments on controversial topics. This series fosters the tradition of higher education to challengeideas and develop critical thinking in an environment of respect for intellectual discourse. Our goal isthat you engage critical thinking skills to reach your own informed position on controversial issues. We invite you to attend, relax, ponder, and enjoy the thought process. For more information, please contact: [email protected]
Tuesday,April 14th
Student UnionTheater
5:15–6:45p.m.
Free and opento the public
John A. List, Ph.D.Professor, University of Chicago
“What can we learn from Uber? Three Large Scale FieldExperiments on Tipping, Apologies, and the Gender Pay Gap”
John A. List is the Kenneth C. Gri�n Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the University ofWyoming. List joined the UChicago faculty in 2005, and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2012-2018. Prior to joining UChicago, he was a professor at the University of Central Florida, University of Arizona, and University of Maryland. His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on using �eld experiments to address both positive and normative issues. His research includes over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and several published books, including the 2013international best-seller, The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (with Uri Gneezy).
Field experiments with �rms have become an important creator ofknowledge in the social sciences. In this lecture, John will focus on one such partnership in the ride-share industry: his work with Uber. He will focus on 3 areas: the economics of tipping, the economics of apologies, and the economics of the gender pay gap in the gig economy. All three �eld experiments have driven company decisions and shed new light on important issues within economics.
Department of Economics presents
David S. SaurmanProvocative Lecture Series 2020
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