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North American Productivity Workshop VI
The North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW),
whose main co-sponsors are the Rice University School of Social Sciences and
the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, will be held June 2-5
2010. The first day of the
conference will be reserved for the young researchers’ pre-conference,
supported by a generous grant from the Baker Institute. The scientific committee welcomes theoretical
and empirical papers on productivity, production theory and efficiency
measurement in economics, management science, operations research public
administration and related fields.
Historically, empirical papers have addressed such general topics as
education, health, energy, finance, agriculture, transport, utilities, and
economic development, among many others.
Further information can be obtained at the
conference website http://economics.rice.edu/~napw2010/
or by contacting the conference organizer, Professor Robin C. Sickles, at NAPW2010 <NAPW2010@rice.edu>
Panel Study Of American Religion And Ethinicity
PANEL STUDY OF AMERICAN RELIGION AND ETHINICITY :The Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life (CORRUL) at Rice
University invites all graduate and undergraduate students in U.S. and
worldwide to take part in the 2010 National Student Paper Competition.
All entries must conduct scholarly research using the newly released
data from the Panel Study of American Religion and Ethnicity (PS-ARE).
Please share this information and attached flyer with colleagues and
students. The PS-ARE website has complete details at http://www.ps-are.org.
Rice economists quoted on CBSNews.com and CNNMoney.com
Ken
Medlock, the James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and
Resource Economics at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public
Policy and adjunct professor of economics, is quoted in articles on
CBSNews.com and CNNMoney.com about movement to curb oil speculation.
Medlock is also quoted in articles on NGOilGas.com and RigZone.com
about the acquisition of BJ Services by Baker Hughes. Articles in the
Houston Chronicle, Oil and Gas Investor and Gas2.org discuss a recent
study on the effect of speculators on oil markets by Medlock and Amy
Myers Jaffe, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the
Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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