Flávio Cunha, Rice Economics, 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! news.rice.edu/news/2023/peop… #RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture

Congratulations to our colleague Prof @HulyaEraslan5 (and Profs Agranov and Tergiman)!

At the very first Friday Brown bag seminar of the semester held last week, Qinyou Hu of Rice Economics presented her JMP on how social networks can be exploited to reduce bullying. These seminars are organised by the PhD students in the department.

The School of Social Sciences will hold a Research Relay on Feb. 12 highlighting global research in social sciences. Learn more: socialsciences.rice.edu/news/school-so… #RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture Rice Anthropology Rice Economics Rice University Political Science

The latest from our Professor Nina Bobkova!

Join SPE International 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?” spegcs.org/events/6857/ #RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture Rice Economics

Our brilliant PhD student, Dibya Mishra, and his research!

He has a new publication YingHua He 🎉🎊

My colleague Shihan Shen has an excellent paper exactly describing these dynamics. drive.google.com/file/d/1hQqMLI…

The accolades keep coming! Hear from social sciences faculty, James DeNicco, Rice Economics, and Dr. Özge Gürcanlı Fischer-Baum 🏳️‍🌈, psychological sciences, who received the 2024 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching: news.rice.edu/news/2024/facu… #RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture Rice University Rice University News

Congratulations to 2024 Diversity Scholarship recipient Salpy Kanimian, Rice University. Learn more about the Diversity Scholarship here: ashecon.org/2024-san-diego… Sponsored by Dalio Philanthropies, Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine, @CommonwealthFnd and Arnold Ventures

💥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. Mallesh Pai Scott Kominers Zi Yang Kang

My fellow Rice University economist Flávio Cunha is helping to establish this U.S. Department of Labor longitudinal study (40+ years) to understand how young people are participating in the labor market and how their participation impacts their lives. bit.ly/3UCUcxS

Here are some of our brilliant young colleagues in Econ and other social sciences!! 🎊🎉🎉🎊

Thrilled to see this paper out! Was great to serve as coordinating editor for Qinyou Hu Rice Economics, formerly a mentee through AMIE + now headed to Aalto BIZ UT San Antonio Carlos Alvarez College of Business Check out more of her fascinating work on family + gender: sites.google.com/view/qinyouhu