Rachel Croson

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Rachel Croson
CitizenshipUnited States
Education University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
SpouseDavid Croson
Children2
Awards Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, American Economic Association 2017

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021

Distinguished Service Award, American Economic Association 2024

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Scientific career
FieldsEconomics, Negotiation, Behavioral Operations Management
Institutions University of Minnesota
Michigan State University
University of Texas at Arlington
National Science Foundation
University of Texas at Dallas
Wharton School
Doctoral advisor Jerry R. Green
Website https://provost.umn.edu/about-evpp/rachel-croson

Rachel Toni Algaze Croson is an McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota. [1] [2] From March 2020 through July 2025 she also served as the Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Minnesota system. Until March 2020, she served as Dean of the College of Social Science and MSU Foundation Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. [3]

Her previous positions include Dean of the School of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington; [4] Division Director of Social and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation; Director of the Negotiations Center, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Organizations, Strategy, and International Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. [5] After receiving her Ph.D. she was Assistant and then Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School and a member of the Psychology Graduate Group of the University of Pennsylvania.

Research

Croson earned her bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy of science from the College of Arts & Sciences at University of Pennsylvania and her master's and Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University.

Croson's research focuses on experimental and behavioral economics; studying how people make economic decisions, what mistakes they make, and how to improve their performance.

This research draws from and contributes to multiple disciplines. Substantively her research has focused on the voluntary provision of public goods (especially public radio), bargaining and negotiation, behavioral operations management, and gender and cultural differences. She has served on the Editorial Boards of the American Economic Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management Science, Experimental Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. She was pivotal in creating and leading workshops to help female junior faculty in Economics advance through the profession, winning the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association (2017) and the American Economic Association Distinguished Service Award (2024) in recognition of her contributions. [6] [7] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2021 and is appointed as a McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota.

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ meyer150 (November 13, 2019). "Dr. Rachel Croson Appointed Executive Vice President and Provost". Executive Vice President and Provost. Retrieved February 27, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ "Regents formally approve Rachel Croson as next UMN provost". The Minnesota Daily. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Rachel Croson recommended as dean of MSU's College of Social Science". MSUToday | Michigan State University. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  4. ↑ "The University of Texas at Arlington names Rachel Croson as dean of its College of Business". Dallas News. November 12, 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  5. ↑ "NSF Director Rachel Croson visits UNR campus". Nevada Today. University of Nevada, Reno. April 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Rachel Croson Recipient of the 2017 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award". American Economic Association.
  7. ↑ University, Michigan State. "MSU dean honored for championing women in economics". MSUToday. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
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