Hello John List.

Steven Dobner, how you doing man?

I'm great. How you doing?

Great, great.

John List is an economist at the University of Chicago, and he's a family man.

Five kids.

Now do you ever have to bribe any of your kids? I'm just curious, John.

Every now and then I have to incentivize them. I don't call it bribe, and I call it incentivizing them.

My kids refuse to eat seafood.

So this comes directly from my wife who claims to have gotten a bad piece of fish when she was a third grader.

But I'm a big seafood lover, and we were in the Bahamas about six months ago.

And I thought of an incentive scheme for my kids that included a large sum of money

if they would eat fish for seven consecutive days.

And how'd that work out?

Yeah, three of the five kids it worked for. They collected the money, and I was hoping

that they would acquire a taste for seafood. They would say, you know, dad, that white fish is actually pretty good.

Or you know, one time we had crab legs, but no, zero of five for the long run.

The minute we touched ground back here in the states, kids have not touched fish since,

even the three of five who were eating the fish down in the Bahamas.

How much did they get from you?

I'd better talk about that off-air.

But it's just way a lot of money.

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