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
gender differences 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.[1][2]
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