Catherine C. Eckel

Catherine Eckel

@eckelc.bsky.social

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I'm a behavioral/experimental economist at Texas A&M.

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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 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, 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. 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. .. more

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Sep 12

Depends what you are studying. Consistently ranked first in the US in petroleum engineering and in Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Also best in state in ISE, ME and MSE. Also VetMed #5 in the US.

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Sep 12

That might be a little aspirational, but people do love it here.

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Sep 12

There are still a lot of serious scholars at Texas A&M. We appreciate your sympathy and are doing the best we can. There are good things about the place: e.g., we have some great students. Also not a propitious time to be looking for a job. Keep an eye out for our students on the job market!

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel, Thomas J. Hayes

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Jul 14

The balance of public opinion is against abortion being legal in only one state, Arkansas.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

In 34 states and D.C., more people say abortion generally should be legal than say it generally should be illegal. For example, in the District of Columbia, 81% of adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Support for legal abortion also stands at about 75% or higher in several New England states, including Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut.

Meanwhile, people in Arkansas are more likely to say abortion should generally be illegal (57%) rather than legal (41%). Arkansas is the only state where the balance of public opinion is against abortion by a statistically significant margin.

In 15 states, the shares saying abortion should be legal and saying it should be illegal are not significantly different once the margins of sampling error in each state are taken into account.

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Mar 31

Sounds like fun!

Lab² @labsquare.net · Mar 31

🔔 Call for Participation 🔔
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!

#ManyDaughters

Many Analysts

www.manydaughters.com

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Mar 31

Grateful that some Republican leaders are pushing back against efforts to defund American universities: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Funding for R&D isn’t a gift to academia

Investing in scientific research and development is vital to U.S. security.

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Peter Haan, Catherine C. Eckel, Jan Marcus

Lab² @labsquare.net · Mar 31

#ManyDaughters

Many Analysts

www.manydaughters.com

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel, Matthias Doepke

Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · Mar 28

Nobel Prizes by country and year.

The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Feb 28

Go, Janet!

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 8

Crazy idea, stick with me...

Law, but for rich people.

Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers

The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency says, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden's signature…

apnews.com

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · Feb 27

Are you ready to put away your wallet tomorrow? I’m all in!

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Feb 27

Oh no.

Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is going to effectively defund women’s sports at colleges and universities…

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 12

From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i

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Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is going to effectively defund women’s sports at colleges and universities…

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 12

Department of Education rescinds Title IX guidance that NIL payments must be proportionate

How Title IX would factor into schools' revenue-sharing decisions has been a lingering question.

nyti.ms

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · Feb 24

“Are federal workers lazy? Let’s look at the data.”

Excellent analysis by @andrewvandam.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Column | Are federal workers lazy? Let’s look at the data.

As Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service targets federal workers, we investigate how hard those folks have been working for their government paychecks.

www.washingtonpost.com

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Jan 27

I concur. Thanks to all who organized and attended/.

Dr. Angelino Viceisza @aviceisza.bsky.social · Jan 26

I had a great time this weekend celebrating the life of Gary Charness. It was good to see many long-time colleagues in experimental economics, including @eckelc.bsky.social, @johnlist.bsky.social, and @lisev.bsky.social. A special thanks to #CharlesNoussair and #MartinDufwenberg for organizing!

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

Dr. Angelino Viceisza @aviceisza.bsky.social · Jan 26

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel, Matthias Doepke, Alberto Bisin , and 10 more Catherine C. Eckel, Matthias Doepke, Alberto Bisin, Jon H. Fiva, Dominic Nyhuis, Tayfun Sönmez, Michael A. Goldstein, Ioana Marinescu, Micaël Castanheira, Jonathan Heathcote, Winston T. Lin, Mike Kestemont, Michael E. Rose

Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Dec 24

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus.

As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees.

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Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Dec 2

Just the facts.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Dec 1

Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Busses 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737

2017 estimates. The Royal Statistical Society gave this compilation its International Statistic of the Year award.

Chart compiling statistics on the number of Americans killed annually various causes. Includes source notes.

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Dec 2

Ryan has a new way to look at things.

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Sep 12

Forthcoming in the AER: "Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity" by Ryan Oprea. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity

(Forthcoming Article) - We provide evidence that classic lottery anomalies like probability weighting and loss aversion are not special phenomena of risk. They also arise (and often with equal strengt...

www.aeaweb.org

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel, Davide Consoli

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Dec 2

This map shows where the world's carbon emissions come from - population centers, flight paths, shipping lanes and high production areas.
www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-ca...

This map shows where the world's carbon emissions come from. Population centers emit a large share of emissions but flight paths, shipping lanes and high production areas are also visible as sources of carbon emissions.

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · Dec 1

I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.**
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020†
By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome,
Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres*
We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated (30 percent relative to US-born Whites). This relative decline occurred among immigrants from all regions and cannot be explained by changes in observable characteristics or immigration policy. Instead, the decline is part of a broader divergence of outcomes between less-educated immigrants and their US-born counterparts.

Panels plotting incarceration rates for immigrants and US-born men between 1870 and 2019. Data are restricted to males ages 18–40. Data spanning 1870–1940 are from the full-count decennial censuses. Data spanning 1950–1990 are from the largest available subsamples from the corresponding decennial censuses. Data from 2005 onward are from the annual ACS. Cross markers indicate that fewer than 10,000 immigrants were used to calculate the corresponding incarceration rate. Panel A compares US-born men to all immigrants. Panels B–F compare US-born men to immigrants from a particular country-of-origin group. “Old Europeans” are immigrants from countries in the north and west of Europe. “New Europeans” are immigrants from countries in eastern and southern Europe. The “Rest of the world” category includes immigrants from countries not included in panels B–F.
Migrants typically show lower incarceration rates

accounting for individual-level characteristics, migrants as a group or by subgroups (old Europeans, new Europeans, Chinese, Mexicans and Central Americans, or Rest of the World) are incarcerated at lower rates

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Dec 1

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Nov 27

Texas A&M University Economics were well represented at the Southern Economic Association meetings in Washington DC. This is a great meeting for seeing folks who aren't necessarily on the fancy circuit, lots of wonderful scholars from many different schools.

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel, Danila Serra

Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷 @nathannunn.bsky.social · Nov 27

Breaking the Cycle of Violence: How Female Leaders Curb Armed Conflict. Guest post by Francisco Eslava blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... via the World Bank

Breaking the Cycle of Violence: How Female Leaders Curb Armed Conflict. Guest post by Francisco Eslava

blogs.worldbank.org

Catherine Eckel @eckelc.bsky.social · Nov 26

Really excellent lecture by Kasey Buckles! The best thing I saw at SEA this year.

Lisa A. Gennetian @lisagennetian.bsky.social · Nov 25

Congrats to Dr. Kasey Buckles on a fantastic lecture “How our families shape us” at #2024SEA
…and the wealth of data to be available w/ the curation of family linkages across censuses.

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel, Marina Della Giusta

Lisa A. Gennetian @lisagennetian.bsky.social · Nov 25

Congrats to Dr. Kasey Buckles on a fantastic lecture “How our families shape us” at #2024SEA
…and the wealth of data to be available w/ the curation of family linkages across censuses.

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel, Stefano Ponte, Christina Wolf , and 1 more Catherine C. Eckel, Stefano Ponte, Christina Wolf, Björn Bremer

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Sep 12

Forthcoming in the AER: "Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity" by Ryan Oprea. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity

www.aeaweb.org

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 8

Crazy idea, stick with me...

Law, but for rich people.

Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers

apnews.com

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social · Jan 11

Ok folks, here is the job ad for our Empirical IO Assistant Professor position and how to apply: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

We'll be moving fast so please encourage all of your students to apply quickly.

📈📉

Reposted by Catherine C. Eckel

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Dec 8

For professional reasons I must change how I interact with social media

I am getting solicitations to apply for deanships

Gotta up the swearing and over-sharing

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