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 holds the George T. & Gladys H. Abell Professorship of Liberal Arts Endowment and is a University Presidential Impact Fellow. She is a Fellow of the CESifo Research Network. She was a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute at University of Melbourne in Australia, where she was a member of the original Steering Committee for the monthly Taking the Pulse of the Nation survey. Her PhD in Economics is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her 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 was 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 holds the George T. & Gladys H. Abell Professorship of Liberal Arts Endowment and is a University Presidential Impact Fellow. She is a Fellow of the CESifo Research Network. She was a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute at University of Melbourne in Australia, where she was a member of the original Steering Committee for the monthly Taking the…