Economics Faculty : Recent Achievements
Honors and Awards in 2020 and 2021
Hülya Eraslan was appointed a Fellow of the Game Theory Society , an organization created in 1999 to promote research , teaching and application of game theory . Fellows of the Society are scholars who are honored for their contributions to game theory as well as their service to the Society .
Hülya Eraslan was appointed a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research . The NBER is a private , nonpartisan organization that facilitates cutting-edge investigation and analysis of major economic issues . Research fellows are appointed based on their research records and their capacity to contribute to NBER activities .
Yunmi Kong is the 2022 recipient of a Korea-America Economic Association ( KAEA ) Young Scholar Award . The award is given annually to one or two members of the KAEA who are within seven years of receiving their Ph . D . and have demonstrated both outstanding scholarly performance and great potential for future innovative research .
Ken Wolpin received the Jacob Mincer Award , presented by the Society for Labour Economist for lifetime contributions to the field of labor economics . Wolpin is the retired former Lay Family Chair of Economics and Chair of the Rice Economics Department .
Isabelle Perrigne was awarded the Reginald Henry Hargrove Chair in Economics . Mallesh Pai was awarded the Lay Family Chair in Economics . James Brown won the 2021 Malcolm Gillis Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching in Economics . Richard Boylan won the 2021 Ralph O ’ Connor Award for Distinction in Teaching and Research in Economics . Vivian Ho was elected to the National Academy of Medicine . Jeremy Fox was awarded the Shatto Endowed Chair of Economics .
Mallesh Pai won the 2020 award for the best paper published in the American Economic Journal : Microeconomics for his paper “ Discrimination via Symmetric Auctions ” ( with Rahul Deb ).
Michele Biavati won the 2020 Malcolm Gillis Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching in Economics . Rossella Calvi won the 2020 Ralph O ’ Connor Award for Distinction in Teaching and Research in Economics .
Articles Accepted or Published Since July 1 , 2020
Rossella Calvi , “ Dowries , Resource Allocation , and Poverty ,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , forthcoming ( with graduate student Ajinkya Keskar ).
Rossella Calvi , “ Measuring Poverty Within The Household ,” IZA World of Labor , forthcoming . Rossella Calvi , “ LATE with Missing or Mismeasured Treatment ,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics , forthcoming .
Rossella Calvi , “ Sharing the Pie : An Analysis of Undernutrition and Individual Consumption in Bangladesh ,” Journal of Public Economics , forthcoming
Rossella Calvi , “ The Protestant Legacy : Missions , Gender , and Human Capital in India ,” Journal of Human Resources , forthcoming ( with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco and Federico Mantovanelli ).
Rossella Calvi , “ Why Are Older Women Missing in India ? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty ,” Journal of Political Economy , July 2020 , pp . 2453-2501 .
Maura Coughlin , “ Heterogeneous Choice Sets and Preferences ,” Econometrica , forthcoming ( with Levon Barseghyan , Francesca Molinari and Joshua C . Teitelbaum ).
Flávio Cunha , “ The Econometrics of Early Childhood Human Capital and Investments ,” Annual Review of Economics , forthcoming ( with Eric Nielsen and Benjamin Williams ).
Flávio Cunha , “ You are What Your Parents Think : Height and Local Reference Points ,” Journal of Econometrics , forthcoming ( with Fan Wang , Esteban Puentes and Jere Behrman ).
Flávio Cunha , “ Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Skill Formation Predict Investments in Children One Year Later ,” Journal of Econometrics , forthcoming ( with Irma Elo and Jennifer Culhane ).
Hülya Eraslan , “ Learning While Setting Precedent ,” Rand Journal of Economics , forthcoming ( with Ying Chen ).
Hülya Eraslan , “ Dynamic Legislative Bargaining ,” forthcoming in Current Research and Future Directions in Bargaining , edited by Kyle Hyndman and Emin Karagozoglu , London : Palgrave Macmillan ( with Kirill Evdokimov and Jan Zapal ).
Jeremy Fox , “ A Note on Nonparametric Identification of Distributions of Random Coefficients in Multinomial Choice Models ,” Annals of Economics and Statistics , forthcoming .
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