Dr. Babcock earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the
University of California at Irvine and her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Economics from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. A visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at the
University of Chicago, the
Harvard Business School, and the
California Institute of Technology, she is also a member of the Behavioral Economics Roundtable coordinated by the
Russell Sage Foundation. In addition, she has served on the economics review panel for the
National Science Foundation. Babcock's research concerns the
wage gap and the perception that women are more reluctant than men to ask for salary increases. ==Works==