Catherine Eckel is 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.  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: 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.  

 

Special thanks to the Research School of Economics for bringing Professor Eckel to ANU to deliver the 2nd Gruen Lecture for 2016 on 19th July and to the College of Business and Economics for their support of Catherine Eckel's visit, giving the Gender Institute the opportunity to host these two events.