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Catherine Eckel is Sara and John Lindsey Professor and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Behavioral Economics and Policy Program. She has held faculty positions at the University of British Columbia, Virginia Tech, and the University of Texas at Dallas, where she was founder and director of the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1983.

As an experimental economist, she has made important contributions on topics that are both policy-relevant and of interest to the academic community. Examples include studies of: financial decision making; financial markets; altruism and charitable fundraising; preferences and behavior in poor, urban settings; the coordination of counter-terrorism policy; gender differences in preferences and behavior, including risk-taking and cooperation; and discrimination by race and gender in games of trust; racial/ethnic identity and undergraduate academic success. She is or has been a PI or Co-PI on twenty-four grants from the National Science Foundation totaling over $4.4 million. Her research has been funded by private foundations including the Russell Sage Foundation, the Aspen Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Dr. Eckel is Past President of the Economic Science Association (the professional organization of experimental economists), and was President of the Southern Economic Association (the largest regional association in Economics). She served for two years as an NSF program director for the economics program and currently serves on the Advisory Committee of NSF's Directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences. She was co-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 is an award-winning teacher, and enjoys engaging undergraduate students in original research projects. She has advised 15 PhD dissertations, and her students hold faculty positions in the US and around the world. In January 2013, Dr. Eckel was awarded the prestigious Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, given annually by the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, for her work developing and participating in mentoring programs for women assistant professors.

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1.2 Psychological And Socioeconomic Processes

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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3509 Transportation, Logistics And Supply Chains

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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University of Virginia - (Charlottesville, Virginia, United States)

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Virginia Commonwealth University - (Richmond, Virginia, United States)

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Social learning in coordination games: does status matter?

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Fundraising design: key issues, unifying framework, and open puzzles

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Inconsistency Pays?: Time-Inconsistent Subjects and EU Violators Earn More

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Gender and Negotiation in the Small: Are Women (Perceived to Be) More Cooperative than Men?

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School environment and risk preferences: Experimental evidence

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The Stability of Social Preferences in a LowIncome Neighborhood

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High-Capacity Donors' Preferences for Charitable Giving

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Will the Working Poor Invest in Human Capital? A Laboratory Experiment

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Giving versus Taking: A Real Donation Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle

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Its All about the Relationship: Motivating Workers Who Do Good

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It's Not the Thought that Counts: A Field Experiment on Gift Exchange and Giving at a Public University

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Risky Curves: On the empirical failure of expected utility theory

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Conditional Trust: Sex, Race and Facial Expressions in an Experimental Trust Game

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One bad apple? Heterogeneity and information in public good provision

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The Causes and Consequences of Mixed Enterprise

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(Im)Patience Among Adolescents: A Methodological Note

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Introduction to special issue on behavioral consumer finance

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The Gender Gap: Using the Lab as a Window on the Market

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Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy

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Who's in Charge? Donor Targeting Enhances Voluntary Giving to Government

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REGULATION AND DEREGULATION OF THE BREWING INDUSTRY - THE BRITISH-COLUMBIA EXAMPLE

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The evolution of preferences and charitable giving: A panel study of the university years

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Does How We Measure Altruism Matter? Playing Both Roles in Dictator Games

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Internet cautions: Experimental games with internet partners

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A Celebration of Vernon Smith's 90th Birthday and Lifetime Contributions to Economics, Southern Economic Association, 2016

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Anatomy of the Credit Score: The Impact of Impulsivity, Risk, Time Preference and Trustworthiness

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Chapter 57 Differences in the Economic Decisions of Men and Women: Experimental Evidence

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Social Distance Matters in Dictator Games: Evidence from 11 Mexican Villages

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Multiple social identities cloud norm perception: responses to COVID-19 among university aged Republicans and Democrats

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Vernon Smith: economics as a laboratory science

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The relative price of fairness: Gender differences in a punishment game

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Whom to Trust: Choice of Partner in a Trust Game

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Complexity in risk elicitation may affect the conclusions: A demonstration using gender differences

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Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining with Outside Options: Experimental Evidence

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Common identity and the voluntary provision of public goods: An experimental investigation

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Is moire information always better? an experimental study of charitable giving and hurricane katrina

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Comparing rebate and matching subsidies controlling for donors awareness: Evidence from the field

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Technology improves learning in large principles of economics classes: Using our WITS

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Giving to secular causes by the religious and nonreligious: An experimental test of the responsiveness of giving to subsidies

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Elinor Ostrom: "A Magnificent and Irreplaceable Treasure"

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Review of Giving according to GARP: An Experimental Test of the Consistency of Preferences for Altruism

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The Gender Leadership Gap: Insights from Experiments

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The value of a smile: Game theory with a human face

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Behind the Screens: Does the Coase Theorem Hold Online?

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Toward a Positive Theory of Joint Enterprise

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Human capital investment by the poor: Informing policy with laboratory experiments

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Stars Upon Thars: Status and Discrimination in Ultimatum Game Experiments

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An Experimental Test of the Crowding Out Hypothesis

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Forecasting risk attitudes: An experimental study using actual and forecast gamble choices

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Do Donors Care about Subsidy Type? An Experimental Study

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In-Group Favoritism in Natural and Minimal Groups

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Trust among the poor: African Americans trust their neighbors, but are less trusting of public officials

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The Effects of Financial Incentives in Experiments: A Review and Capital-Labor-Production Framework

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Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit

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Competition, Performance and Public Policy Toward Nonprofits

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Social norms of sharing in high school: Teen giving in the dictator game

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A field experiment on directed giving at a public university

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On the Effects of Culture on Punishment of Bribery: US vs. Pakistan

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The Discriminating Beta: Prices and Capacity with Correlated Demands

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Managing diversity by creating team identity

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Sacrifice: An experiment on the political economy of extreme intergroup punishment

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Heterogeneity of Beliefs and Trading Behavior  A Reexamination

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Towards an Improved Methodology in Analyzing Corruption: Insights from Citizen Responses to Corrupt Practices Across Countries

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Did the Ice Bucket Challenge Drain the Philanthropic Reservoir?: Evidence from a Real-Donation Lab Experiment

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Heterogeneity in Ultimatum Bargaining: The role of information, individual characteristics, and emotions

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Motives for Giving: A Reanalysis of Two Classic Public Goods Experiments

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Health behavior and behavioral economics: economic preferences and physical activity stages of change in a low-income African-American community.

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Domain Specific Risk Attitudes in Low Income Populations

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The human face of game theory: Trust and reciprocity in sequential games

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Introduction to JEBO special issue on "Issues in the Methodology of Experimental Economics"

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An experimental study of leadership institutions in collective action games

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Worthiness versus SelfInterest in Charitable Giving: Evidence from a LowIncome, Minority Neighborhood

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Rebate versus matching: does how we subsidize charitable contributions matter?

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Using Social Norms to Explain Giving Behavior

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Opinion: Building a 21st-century infrastructure for the social sciences.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Privatization and efficiency: Industry effects of the sale of British Airways

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Using technology to facilitate active learning in economics through experiments

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It pays to be a man: Rewards for leaders in a coordination game

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Behind the Screens: Does the Coase Theorem Hold Online?

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Risk Preferences and Physical Prowess: Is the Weaker Sex More Risk Averse, or Do We Just Think So?

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Choice of Location Boosts African-American Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines

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Buying status: Experimental evidence on status in negotiation

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What role can experiments play in research on regulation? Introduction

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Using social norms to explain giving behavior

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Four Classic Public Goods Experiments: A Replication Study

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Subsidizing charitable contributions: a natural field experiment comparing matching and rebate subsidies

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Transmission of information within transnational social networks: a field experiment

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Thar SHE Blows? Gender, Competition, and Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets

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The Democratic Peace: An experimental test of a causal relation and of underlying mechanisms

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Does cronyism pay? Costly ingroup favoritism in the lab

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Care provision: An experimental investigation

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SEA Symposium in Honor of Roger Sherman Introduction

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A Finite Mixture Model of Behavior in a Three-Person Trust Game

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Chivalry and solidarity in ultimatum games

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Four Classic Public Goods Experiments: A Replication Study (vol 18, pg 13, 2015)

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Playing it Safe: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion

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Judging a book by its cover: Beauty and expectations in the trust game

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SAVING DECISIONS OF THE WORKING POOR: SHORT- AND LONG-TERM HORIZONS

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THE PRICE OF GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP - A STUDY OF THE DOMTAR TAKEOVER

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The evolution of preferences and charitable giving: a panel study of the university years

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Introduction to the Symposium in Experimental Economics in memory of John Van Huyck

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ELEMENTS OF A THEORY OF MIXED ENTERPRISE

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Searching for Homo Socialis: A Comment on Gintis and Helbing

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A GENERAL-MODEL OF CUSTOMER-CLASS PRICING

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Report on Central and Eastern Europe: Needs Assessment, Resources and Funding Opportunities for Research and Education in Business and Economics

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Workers' response to monetary incentives in forprofit and nonprofit jobs

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Workers Response to Monetary Incentives in Non- Profit and For-Profit Jobs

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The gender leadership gap in competitive and cooperative institutions

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Attributions of Trust and Trustworthiness

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People Playing Games: The Human Face of Experimental Economics (Presidential Address)

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Ready or Not? How Citizens and Public Officials Perceive Risk and Preparedness

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Using social norms to explain giving behavior

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The Financial Fallout from Chernobyl: Risk Perceptions and Regulatory Response

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Subsidizing unit donations: matches, rebates, and discounts compared

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Debt Aversion and the Demand for Loans for Postsecondary Education

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Mixed Enterprise

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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STRATEGIC VOTING IN AGENDA-CONTROLLED COMMITTEE EXPERIMENTS

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Initiating Trust: The Conditional Effects of Skin Color Among Strangers

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The effect of stereotypes on black college test scores at a historically black university

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Are women less selfish than men?: Evidence from dictator experiments

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Hidden vs. known gender effects in experimental asset markets

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Blaming the messenger: Notes on the current state of experimental economics

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The 2D:4D ratio does not always correlate with economic behavior: A field experiment with African-Americans.

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Gender Differences in Behavioral Traits and Labor Market Outcomes

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Does Access to Insurance Crowd Out Solidarity? An Experimental Investigation in Three Texas Communities

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Chapter 113 Men, Women and Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence

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In-group favoritism in natural and minimal groups

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Price Competition in the British Columbia Brewing Industry: Present Status and Future Prospects

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Loving the long shot: Risk taking with skewed lotteries

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Economic Preferences and Obesity among a Low-Income African American Community.

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Group-Level Selection Increases Cooperation in the Public Goods Game.

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Eliciting risk preferences: When is simple better?

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Giving according to GARP: An experimental test of the consistency of preferences for altruism (by James Andreoni and John Miller)

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An Overview of Mixed Enterprises in Canada

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Directed giving enhances voluntary giving to government

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In-Group Favoritism in Natural and Minimal Groups

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When identity clouds norm perception: Responses to COVID-19 among university aged Republicans and Democrats

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Fairness and Rejection in the Ultimatum Bargaining Game

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Sex differences and statistical stereotyping in attitudes toward financial risk

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Eager beavers v. lazy slugs: selection effects in experiments with social preferences

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Norm and Behavior Change in Response to COVID-19

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Is More Information Always Better? An Experimental Study of Charitable Giving and Hurricane Katrina

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Giving to government: Voluntary taxation in the lab

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Heterogeneity of Beliefs and Trading Behavior: A Reexamination

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Risk loving after the storm: A Bayesian-Network study of Hurricane Katrina evacuees

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The proposers behavior in the ultimatum game in 11 Mexican villages

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Fostering Adult Education: A Laboratory Experiment on the Efficient Use of Loans, Grants, and Saving Incentives

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Commentary on The Effects of Financial Incentives in Experiments: A Review and Capital-Labor-Production Framework

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How to Tame Lab-in-the-Field Experiments

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INTERNAL REGULATION - THE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP ON THE VALUE OF THE FIRM

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Equity and Fairness in Economic Decisions: Evidence From Bargaining Experiments

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Subsidizing Charitable Giving with Rebates or Matching: Further Laboratory Evidence

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The evolution of risk attitudes: A panel study of the university years

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Book Review: Isabella Scoscia, Emotions and Consumption Behavior.

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Bobbing for widgets: Compensating wage differentials

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Charity Begins at Home: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Charitable Giving

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Chapter 3 Experiments in Culture and Corruption: A Review

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Book Review: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, Eds. Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field

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Reciprocal Fairness and Social Signaling: Experiments with Limited Reputations

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Volunteers and Pseudo-Volunteers: The Effect of Recruitment Method in Dictator Experiments

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RAPID: Collaborative Research: The Impact of COVID-19 on Norms, Risk-taking, Information, and Trust

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Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Interdisciplinary Workshop on Cooperation, Conflict and the Evolution of Sociality

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: It's Not (Just) About the Money

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Measuring Preference Stability and Change: A Panel Study

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Escaping Secular Stagnation with Unconventional Policy

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Identity, Stereotype Threat, and Black College Student Success

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: It's Not (Just) About the Money

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: It's Not (Just) About the Money

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: NSCC/SA: Behavioral Insights into National Security Issues

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Economics; 4228 TAMU

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Alston, Mackenzie Jessica (2019-05). Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Discrimination and Stereotypes. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Viriyaripart, Ajalavat (2015-08). Experimental Tests of Global Games Theory: Coordination, Bargaining and Entry Games. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Zhang, Yue (2015-08). Time Preference and Addictive Consumption: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Harwell, Haley Anne (2016-05). Experiments in Altruism and Charitable Giving. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Bacine, Noah Craig (2019-05). Experiments in Identity Economics. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Zhan, Wei (2017-08). Three Essays on Pro-social Behavior. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Wang, Zhengzheng (2016-05). Experiments in Public Policy. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Aksoy, Billur (2019-05). Essays on Social Preferences. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Kovaliukaite, Ada (2018-05). The Role of Strategic Beliefs in Understanding Strategic, Pro-Social and Socially Complementary Behavior. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Priday, Benjamin Avin (2020-08). Essays in the Economics of Altruistic Behavior. Doctoral Dissertation.