Catherine Eckel, Ph.D. School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
Professor of Economics
Dr. Catherine Eckel incorporates psychology and sociology into her experimental economics research to measure the effect of social interaction on economic exchange.
She is the director of the UT Dallas Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Sciences, where researchers conduct experiments using real money.
Eckel is the co-editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and a former economic program officer at the National Science Foundation.
At UT Dallas Eckel teaches courses on public economics, industrial organizations, experimental economics, antitrust economics, gender, race and poverty, managerial economics and regulated industries and public enterprise. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia.
News Coverage
Two UTD Professors Join Board
Of Behavioral Economics Society
Green Light Given to 21 Undergrad Research Ideas
Catherine Eckel Named University of Arizona’s 2008 Wilson Scholar
Prof Helps Assemble Massive Economics Reference
Bigger Bling for the Beautiful (ABC News)
Updated: November 29, 2011
