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684
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432

Overview

Rachel Croson is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields within the social sciences, focusing notably on education, gender studies, management science and operations research, and management information systems.

The main topics in their research include innovations in educational methods, gender diversity and inequality, efficiency analysis using data envelopment analysis (DEA), and accounting and organizational management.

Their scholarly output includes publications in notable venues such as:

  • AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • Organization Science

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial," published in 2020 in AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • "CROSSROADS-Increasing the Impact of Organization Science Research: Lessons from Economics," published in 2025 in Organization Science

Rachel Croson has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Donna K. Ginther
  • Janet Currie
  • Francine D. Blau
  • David C. Croson
  • C. Mónica Capra

Best Publications

  • Gender Differences in Preferences

    Rachel Croson;Uri Gneezy

  • A Field Experiment in Charitable Contribution: The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

    Jen Shang;Rachel Croson

  • Gender and Culture: International Experimental Evidence from Trust Games

    Rachel Croson;Nancy Buchan

  • Trust and gender: An examination of behavior and beliefs in the Investment Game

    Nancy R. Buchan;Rachel T.A. Croson;Sara Solnick

  • Behavioral Causes of the Bullwhip Effect and the Observed Value of Inventory Information

    Rachel Croson;Karen Donohue

  • THEORIES OF COMMITMENT, ALTRUISM AND RECIPROCITY: EVIDENCE FROM LINEAR PUBLIC GOODS GAMES

    Rachel T. A. Croson

  • Let's get personal: An international examination of the influence of communication, culture and social distance on other regarding preferences

    Nancy R. Buchan;Eric J. Johnson;Rachel T.A. Croson

  • Deception and Retribution in Repeated Ultimatum Bargaining.

    Terry L. Boles;Rachel T.A. Croson;J. Keith Murnighan

  • The Gambler’s Fallacy and the Hot Hand: Empirical Data from Casinos

    Rachel Croson;James Sundali

  • Partners and strangers revisited

    Rachel T.A. Croson

  • Bodies of Knowledge for Research in Behavioral Operations

    Elliot Bendoly;Rachel T Croson;Paulo Goncalves;Kenneth Schultz

  • Impact of POS data sharing on supply chain management: An experimental study

    Rachel Croson;Rachel Croson;Karen L Donohue

  • The impact of downward social information on contribution decisions

    Rachel Croson;Jen (Yue) Shang

  • Income and wealth heterogeneity in the voluntary provision of linear public goods

    Edward Buckley;Rachel Croson

  • Partners versus Strangers: Random Rematching in Public Goods Experiments

    James Andreoni;Rachel Croson

  • Order stability in supply chains: : coordination risk and the role of coordination stock

    Rachel Croson;Karen L Donohue;Elena Katok;John Sterman

  • Cheap talk in bargaining experiments: lying and threats in ultimatum games

    Rachel Croson;Terry Boles;J.Keith Murnighan

  • Thinking like a game theorist: factors affecting the frequency of equilibrium play

    Rachel T.A. Croson

  • Step Returns in Threshold Public Goods: A Meta- and Experimental Analysis

    Rachel T. A. Croson;Melanie Beth Marks

  • Overconfidence in Newsvendor Orders: An Experimental Study

    Yufei Ren;Rachel T. A. Croson

  • Information in ultimatum games: An experimental study

    Rachel T.A. Croson

  • Identity congruency effects on donations

    Jen Shang;Americus Reed;Rachel Croson

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine C. Eckel
Catherine C. Eckel Texas A&M University
Janet Currie
Janet Currie Princeton University
Francine D. Blau
Francine D. Blau Cornell University
Elena Katok
Elena Katok The University of Texas at Dallas
Maurice E. Schweitzer
Maurice E. Schweitzer University of Pennsylvania
J. Keith Murnighan
J. Keith Murnighan Northwestern University
James Andreoni
James Andreoni University of California, San Diego
Simon Gächter
Simon Gächter University of Nottingham
Femida Handy
Femida Handy University of Pennsylvania

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