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Unofficial twitter account of the Department of Economics at Rice University. Maintained by faculty and grad students.
Houston, TX
Joined March 2021
Thrilled to see this paper out! Was great to serve as coordinating editor for @QinyouH @RiceEcon, formerly a mentee through @econmentoring + now headed to @AaltoBIZ @UTSABusiness Check out more of her fascinating work on family + gender:
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Qinyou Hu (胡沁悠)
Social Status and #Marriage Markets: Evaluating a #Hukou Policy in #China by Qinyou Hu . cOORDINATING Ed was @LeightJessica
https://t.co/q5JoaIFySf already accessed 656 times
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Here are some of our brilliant young colleagues in Econ and other social sciences!! 🎊🎉🎉🎊
Congratulations to social sciences faculty @rossella_calvi, @JingChen_Psy, @__cjdiaz, Jeremy Fiel, @docdking11, and @YunmiKongEcon, who received promotions to associate professor with tenure! #RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture
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My fellow @RiceUniversity economist Flávio Cunha is helping to establish this @USDOL longitudinal study (40+ years) to understand how young people are participating in the labor market and how their participation impacts their lives.
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Rice University economist Flávio Cunha will participate in the establishment of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2027, the latest effort from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor...
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Congratulations to 2024 Diversity Scholarship recipient @SalpyKanimian, @RiceUniversity. Learn more about the Diversity Scholarship here: https://t.co/KluujXt8po Sponsored by @DalioDotOrg, @CedarsSinaiMed, @CommonwealthFnd and @Arnold_Ventures
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💥Mallesh Pai💥 (Rice) is our next guest. He will present the paper "Taxing Externalities Without Hurting the Poor, " a joint work with Philipp Strack. Our guest panelists are Scott Kominers and Zi Yang Kang. Join us on Thursday, 9/May/2024. @malleshpai @skominers @ZiYangKang
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The accolades keep coming! Hear from social sciences faculty, @JDenicco, @RiceEcon, and @OGurcanl, psychological sciences, who received the 2024 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching: https://t.co/hFxMutv2P3
#RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture @RiceUniversity @RiceUNews
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Nine Rice University faculty members received the 2024 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors top Rice instructors based on votes from alumni who graduated within the past two,...
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My colleague @SShenEcon has an excellent paper exactly describing these dynamics. https://t.co/pHnML8Bs8K
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Great video. In the 1980s, Steve Jobs argues that monopolies like Xerox and IBM are run by marketing people, not by product people; once you have market share, product innovation no longer generates profits Now that Apple is a monopoly, is it run by marketing people?
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He has a new publication @YingHuaHe 🎉🎊
What can we learn about agent preferences from data only on who matches with whom? A study by @YingHuaHe @SSinhaEcon & Xiaoting Sun answers this question in a two-sided matching setting (eg. college admissions) and provides a practical estimation method https://t.co/w9qrdgNK5R
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Our brilliant PhD student, Dibya Mishra, and his research!
“The School of Social Sciences has a fantastic economics department. It is small and very close-knit, which has been a big plus for me.”: https://t.co/wCuWGw0ELz
#RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture @RiceEcon
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Join @SPEtweets and Rice’s MEECON program for a "Fast Five” series to learn about the five most important things in energy. On 4/5 at 12pm in KRF 110, Peter Hartley will host “What’s economics got to do with energy?” https://t.co/m7WFvfNoeC
#RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture @RiceEcon
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The latest from our Professor Nina Bobkova!
Forthcoming in the AER: "Information Choice in Auctions" by Nina Bobkova.
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The School of Social Sciences will hold a Research Relay on Feb. 12 highlighting global research in social sciences. Learn more: https://t.co/4vZvXxb4E0
#RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture @RiceAnthro @RiceEcon @RicePoliSci
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Congratulations to our colleague Prof @HulyaEraslan5 (and Profs Agranov and Tergiman)!
Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Bargaining in the Shadow of Uncertainty" by Marina Agranov, Hülya Eraslan, and Chloe Tergiman.
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Flávio Cunha, @RiceEcon, was awarded the Dennis J. Aigner Award for his paper "Maternal subjective expectations about the technology of skill formation predict investments in children one year later." Congrats, Flávio! https://t.co/2ssEDFPn1v
#RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture
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People, papers and presentations ...
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Finally, our placement director is @malleshpai --- reach out to him or the advisors if you need further information about these wonderful candidates!
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Binyu Zhao's JMP is "Information Precision, Liquidity and Risk Premiums: Evidence from Stock Call Auctions in the U.S." Her fields are Financial Economics and Asset Pricing, and her advisor is Kerry Back. Learn more about her at: https://t.co/aijEJULko0
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Myoungji Yang's JMP is "The Welfare Effects of Repealing Sales Tax on Menstrual Hygiene Products". Her fields are Empirical Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics and her advisor is Xun Tang. Learn more about her at https://t.co/HFqmlFjwqV
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