Linda C. Babcock is an American academic. She is the James M. Walton Professor of Economics and former dean at

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, and is the former head of the

Social and Decision Sciences The Department of Social and Decision Sciences (SDS) is an interdisciplinary academic department within the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. The Department of Social and Decision Sciences is headqu ...

department. She is also the founder and faculty director of the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS).

Background

Dr. Babcock earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the

University of California at Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...

and her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Economics from the

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. A visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at the

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, the

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, and the

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, she is also a member of the Behavioral Economics Roundtable coordinated by the

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. In addition, she has served on the economics review panel for the

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. Babcock's research concerns the wage gap and the perception that women are more reluctant than men to ask for salary increases.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Babcock, Linda C. Living people University of California, Irvine alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty American women academics 1961 births