Working Papers
Candelo, Natalia, Angela de Oliviera, Catherine Eckel. "Trust Among the Poor: African Americans Trust Neighbors More than Public Officials." July 2020.
Diederich, Johannes, Catherine C. Eckel, Raphael Epperson, Timo Goeschl, Philip J. Grossman, “Subsidizing Quantity Donations: Matches, Rebates, and Discounts Compared.” January, 2020.
Alston, Mackenzie, Catherine Eckel, Jonathan Meer and Wei Zhan. “High-Capacity Donors’ Preferences for Charitable Giving.” NBER Working Paper 25290, http://www.nber.org/papers/w25290. Revised July 2020. Under Review.
Harwell, Haley, Angela de Oliveira and Catherine Eckel. “Does Access to Insurance Crowd Out Solidarity? An Experimental Investigation in Three Texas Communities.” Texas A&M University, Dept. of Economics, Working paper, 2019. (Previous version: "Risk Sharing in Three Texas Towns," 2015). Under review.
Harwell, Haley and Catherine Eckel. Did the Ice Bucket Challenge Drain the Philanthropic Reservoir?: Evidence from a Real-Donation Lab Experiment. Working paper, Texas A&M University, October 2015.
Banuri, Sheheryar, Catherine Eckel and Rick Wilson. “Does Cronyism Pay?: Costly Ingroup Favoritism in the Lab.” (Previously titled “Deconstructing Nepotism”). Revised August 2017.
Banuri, Sheheryar, Angela de Oliveira and Catherine C. Eckel. “It’s All about the Relationship: Motivating Workers Who ‘Do Good’.” August 2014.
Haydel, Michael, Catherine Eckel and Rick Wilson, "Domain Specific Risk Attitudes in Low Income Populations." November 2013
Scherenberg Farrett, Ericka, Patrick Brandt and Catherine Eckel. “A Finite Mixture Model of Behavior in a Three-Person Trust Game.” Working paper, November 2013.
Scherenberg Farrett, Ericka, Daniel Arce and Catherine Eckel. “Motivation and Monetary Incentives.” Working paper, December 2013.
Li, Sherry Xin, Catherine Eckel, Phil Grossman and Tara Larson Brown. “Who’s in Charge? Donor Targeting of Voluntary Taxes Enhances Giving to Government.” April 2013. Revised August 2013. (partially published as Li, et al, Economics Letters 133: 51-54. 2015)
Grossman, Philip and Catherine Eckel. “Giving versus Taking: A “Real Donation” Comparison of Warm Glow and Cold Prickle.” April 2013. Revised August 2013. (published as “Giving versus Taking for a Cause, Economics Letters 2015).
Eckel, Catherine, Philip Grossman, Cathleen Johnson, Angela de Oliveira, Christian Rojas, Rick Wilson. “(Im)Patience Among Adolescents: A Methodological Note.” November 2012.
Banuri, Sheheryar, and Catherine Eckel. “On the Effects of Culture on Punishment of Bribery: US vs. Pakistan.” November 2012. Revised July 2014.
Berg, Nathan, Catherine Eckel and Cathleen Johnson. Inconsistency Pays?: Time-Inconsistent Subjects and EU Violators Earn More. 2011.
Banuri, Sheheryar, Rachel Croson, Catherine Eckel and Ruben Kline. Towards an Improved Methodology in Analyzing Corruption: Insights from Citizen Responses to Corrupt Practices across Countries. CBEES working paper, 09-01, 2009.
Eckel, Catherine C., and Rick K. Wilson, “Initiating Trust: The Conditional Effects of Skin Color Among Strangers.” Rice University, July 2006. Revised July 2007
Eckel, Catherine C., and Rick K. Wilson, “Conditional Trust: Sex, Race and Facial Expressions in an Experimental Trust Game.” Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, February 2003. Revised, November 2003.
Ashley, Rick, S. Ball and C. Eckel, “Analysis of Experimental Public Goods Data Using Dynamic Panel Regression Models.” Presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2002. Revised December 2003.
Eckel, Catherine C., and Jacob Goeree, “Prospect Theory v. Decision Error.” Presented at the Allied Social Science Association, Atlanta, January 2002.
Evan Moore and C. Eckel, “Measuring Ambiguity Aversion.” Presented at the Economic Science Association Meetings, Barcelona, June 2001, at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, July 2002; and at the Southern Economic Association, November 2003.
Eckel, Catherine C., and Rick K. Wilson, “Whom to Trust: Choice of Partner in a Trust Game.” Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, December 2000. Revised, August 2002.
Eckel, Catherine C., Philip J. Grossman, N. Lutz, and V. Padmanabhan, “Playing it Safe: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion.” Presented at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, November 23-25, 1996, the Risk Subnetwork Workshop, Preferences Network, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, October 3, 1997, and the Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings (CSWEP Session), Chicago, January 1998. Revised March 2003.
Eckel, Catherine C., and Rick K. Wilson, “Social Learning in a Social Hierarchy: An Experimental Study.” Presented at AAAS, February 2000.
Eckel, Catherine C., and Rick K. Wilson. “Reciprocal Fairness and Social Signaling: Experiments with Limited Reputations.” Presented at the American Economic Association Annual Meetings, January 3-5, 1999.
Eckel, Catherine C., and R. Gilles, "Fairness in Ultimatum Bargaining with Outside Options: Experimental Evidence." Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Department of Economics, Revised, August, 1997. Presented at the Public Choice/Economic Science Association meetings, Long Beach, March 1995.
Eckel, Catherine C., and S. Ball, "Stars Upon Thars: Status and Discrimination in Ultimatum Game Experiments." Revised March,1998. Presented at the Economic Science Association Annual Meeting, Tucson, October, 1993.