Linda Babcock
Economics professor and negotiation researcher
Linda Babcock is an economist at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in negotiation and dispute resolution. She also founded a gender equity research program.
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About Linda Babcock
Linda C. Babcock is an American academic and a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh. She is a former dean of Heinz College and a former head of the Social and Decision Sciences department. She also founded the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS), where she serves as faculty director. Babcock grew up in Altadena, California. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of California at Irvine, then a master's degree and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, at the University of Chicago's business school and at the California Institute of Technology. Her research on negotiation and dispute resolution has appeared in journals such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Her book in our catalog is Ask For It.