Ragan Petrie is an applied microeconomist who uses behavioral and experimental approaches to study topics in public and labor economics, including motives for charitable giving, gender differences in bargaining and competition, discrimination, social media and the economic preferences of children.
She is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University. At A&M, she holds a University Presidential Impact Fellow, a Cornerstone Faculty Fellow in Liberal Arts and the Elton Lewis Faculty Fellowship in Liberal Arts. She is also a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute at University of Melbourne in Australia, where she is on the Steering Committee for the monthly Taking the Pulse of the Nation survey. Her PhD in Economics is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ragan’s research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Economic Literature. She is a co-editor at Experimental Economics. Media coverage of her research includes the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chronicle of Philanthropy and Australian Financial Review. She has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation, the Science of Philanthropy Initiative and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation.
Ragan Petrie is an applied microeconomist who uses behavioral and experimental approaches to study topics in public and labor economics, including motives for charitable giving, gender differences in bargaining and competition, discrimination, social media and the economic preferences of children. She is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University. At A&M, she holds a University Presidential Impact Fellow, a Cornerstone Faculty Fellow in Liberal Arts and the Elton Lewis Faculty Fellowship in Liberal Arts. She is also a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute at University of Melbourne in Australia, where she is on the Steering…