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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
Ragan Petrie is an applied microeconomist who uses field and lab experiments to study topics in public and labor economics, including motives for charitable giving, gender differences in bargaining and competition, discrimination, and the economic preferences of children.

She is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University and a University Presidential Impact Fellow and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow in Liberal Arts. She holds the Elton Lewis Faculty Fellowship in Liberal Arts at A&M and is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute at University of Melbourne in Australia.

She received a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Economics, a Master's degree in Public and International Affairs from University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor's degree in French from University of Illinois.

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Human Resource Development, Workplace Incivility, Crisis Management, Work-life Issues

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Human Resource Development and African Americans

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University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States)

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Economics & Agricultural and Applied Economics

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States)

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University of Pittsburgh - (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)

# publications[].label
J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr and H. Gintis, Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies, Oxford University Press, New York, NY (2004) ISBN 0-19-926204-7 p. 451

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Risk Management Research Report - Spring 2010

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The Value of Irrigation Permits to Agricultural Landowners: A Property Value Analysis

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Seeking women land owners and ownership in Zimbabwe: case studies of women's access to land and land use

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Centre for Applied Social Sciences: Land Tenure Center, University of

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Taking Utility Seriously in Ultimatum Bargaining

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Revealing Preferences for Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining

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Discrimination in the lab: Does information trump appearance?

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Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment

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Sleepiness, choice consistency, and risk preferences

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Children's rationality, risk attitudes and field behavior

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Childrens Rationality, Risk Attitudes, and Misbehavior

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Going Negative: The Persuasive Effect of Tone and Information on Campaign Fundraising and Voter Turnout

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Short-Circuiting Crime: Evidence From a Post-incarceration Field Experiment

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Is There a Clear Pathway Out of the Pandemic? Australians Disagree

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Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, The University of

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Lost in the mail: A field experiment on corruption

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LOST IN THE MAIL: A FIELD EXPERIMENT ON CRIME

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Sleepiness, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences

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Risk Preferences and Decision Quality of the Poor

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The today and tomorrow of kids: Time preferences and educational outcomes of children

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Inconsistent Choices in Lottery Experiments: Evidence from Rwanda

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Room composition effects on risk taking by gender

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Finding Excuses to Decline the Ask: A Field Experiment

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Understanding the risk preferences of the poor

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Discrimination in the lab: Experiments exploring the impact of performance and appearance on sorting and cooperation

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Gender differences in competitiveness: The role of prizes

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Estimating the value of water use permits: A hedonic approach applied to farmland in the southeastern united states

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Discrimination in the warplace: Evidence from a civil war in Peru

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Stability of Social Preferences and Learning in Public Goods Games

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Incentivized Learning and Attention-driven Treatment Effects

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Effects of Workplace Competition on Work Time and Gender Inequality

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Gender differences in bargaining outcomes

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Social Preferences and Payoff-Based Learning Explain Contributions in Repeated Public Goods Games

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Room composition effects on risk taking by gender

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What Persuades Voters? A Field Experiment on Political Campaigning

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Social motives to giving: can these explain fund raising institutions

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Peer Effects in Middle School Students Test Scores with Accounting for Individual Heterogeneity

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Rationality and the Nature of the Market

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ON THE PREFERENCES OF PRINCIPALS AND AGENTS

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How are Australians Returning to the New Normal, and Staying Safe, as Restrictions Ease During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute Applied Economic & Social Research

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Sleepiness, Rationality and Risky Choice

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What do bargainers' preferences look like? Experiments with a convex ultimatum game

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Is the Collective Action of Social Distancing the New Normal?

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University of Melbourne, Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

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Taking Utility Seriously in Ultimatum Bargaining: Parametric and Non-Parametric Estimates of Preferences

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Social Systems Research Institute, University of Wisconsin

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Social barriers to cooperation: Experiments on the extent and nature of discrimination in Peru

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Discount rates of children and high school graduation

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Ethnic and Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments Studying the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Urban Peru

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Learning from mistakes: What do inconsistent choices over risk tell us?

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How much is patience worth? Discount rates of children and high school completion

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Public goods experiments without confidentiality: a glimpse into fund-raising

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How Experiments with Children Inform Economics

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Farmer preferences for reforestation contracts in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

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Favor Trading in Grassroots Fundraising: The Girl Scout Cookie Phenomenon

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Gender differences in bargaining outcomes: A field experiment on discrimination

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Fundraising through online social networks: A field experiment on peer-to-peer solicitation

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Social Motives to Giving and Bargaining: Experimental Evidence

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Gender differences in bargaining outcomes: A field experiment on discrimination

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Ethnic and social barriers to cooperation

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Ethnic and social barriers to cooperation: experiments studying the extent and nature of discrimination in urban Peru

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Inter-American Development Bank Washington, DC

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Crops, water usage, and auction experience in the 2002 irrigation reduction auction

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Cognitive Resource Depletion, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences

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Negative campaigning, fundraising, and voter turnout: A field experiment

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Barreras tnicas y sociales para la cooperacin: estudios experimentales sobre la magnitud y naturaleza de la discriminacin en el Per urbano

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Friends asking friends for charity: The importance of gifts and audience

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Sleepiness, Rationality and Risky Choice

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Beauty, gender and stereotypes: Evidence from laboratory experiments

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Discount Rates of Children and High School Graduation

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Farm household production efficiency: Evidence from The Gambia

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How Does Your View of Government Affect Your Willingness to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19?

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Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, The University of

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Communication Architecture Affects Gender Differences in Negotiation

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My Neighbor Next Floor: The Built Environment and Social Preferences

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Time to Give: A Field Experiment on Intertemporal Charitable Giving

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Texas A&M University; Economics; 4228 TAMU

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)