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
Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory. ...
and Policy Program. She has been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, Virginia Tech, and the University of Texas at Dallas, where she founded and oversaw the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science. Her research focuses on
experimental economics, and she has studied
charitable giving;
cooperation
Cooperation (written as co-operation in British English) is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common, mutual, or some underlying benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit. Many animal a ...
,
trust, and
risk tolerance in poor,
urban settings; the coordination of
counter-terrorism policy;
gender difference
Sex differences in humans have been studied in a variety of fields. Sex determination occurs by the presence or absence of a Y in the 23rd pair of chromosomes in the human genome. Phenotypic sex refers to an individual's sex as determined by the ...
s in preferences and behavior; and
discrimination by race and
gender as evidenced in games of trust. She has received 24 grants, totaling $4.4 million, from the National Science Foundation. The Russel Sage Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation are some of the other foundations that have funded her research. She was a past-President 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. Eckel, an award-winning teacher, has advised 15 PhD dissertations, and her past students now hold faculty positions across the globe. She engages her undergraduate students with projects consisting largely of original research.
References
External links
Eckel's Website
American women economists
Behavioral economists
Experimental economists
20th-century American economists
21st-century American economists
Texas A&M University faculty
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
University of Virginia alumni
Virginia Commonwealth University alumni
Living people
Economists from Texas
Year of birth missing (living people)
American academic journal editors
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
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