Rachel Croson

Rachel Croson is an economist and Dean of the College of Social Science and MSU Foundation Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. She studies bargaining and negotiation as well as public goods provision, and uses experimental approaches to study management. She is known for her mentorship and advice to women in the economics profession, and was the 2017 winner of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. She previously served as professor and director of the Negotiations Center at the University of Texas at Dallas, as a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and as a division director for the National Science Foundation.

Research

Her research focuses on bargaining and negotiation as well as public goods provision, and uses experimental approaches to study management. She has served on the Editorial Boards of the American Economic Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of International Business Studies, and Decision and Risk Analysis. Her papers on gender differences in economic behavior have been cited thousands of times.

Personal life

She is married to economist David Croson.