Catherine C. Eckel
Catherine C. Eckel | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Virginia Commonwealth University University of Virginia |
| Awards | Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2012 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia Virginia Tech University of Texas at Dallas Texas A&M University |
| Doctoral advisor | Roger Sherman[citation needed] |
| Website | https://sites.google.com/site/eckelcatherine/ |
Catherine Millay Coleman Eckel is the Sarah and John Lindsey Professor in the Liberal Arts and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Behavioral Economics and Policy Program. Her research focuses on experimental economics, and she has studied charitable giving; cooperation, trust, and risk tolerance in poor, urban settings; the coordination of counter-terrorism policy; gender differences in preferences and behavior; and discrimination by race and gender as evidenced in games of trust. She is President Elect of the Economic Science Association, the professional organization of experimental economists, and a past-President of the Southern Economic Association. She has served as a program director for the National Science Foundation, an editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2005-2012), and has served as associate editor or on the editorial boards of twelve journals.[1][2]
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