WiE Brown Bag Seminar - December

Join us for our sixth session featuring Qinyou Hu, an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research fields are Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics, with a particular focus on family, education, and health. Her work draws on multidisciplinary insights from economics, psychology, and sociology, often employing field experiments and both observational and experimental data. Qinyou's broader research agenda emphasizes how social networks and non-cognitive skill development can shape outcomes in developing economies and inform effective policy interventions.

Sad! I Got Talent but My Mom Doesn’t Know It: Parent-Child Belief Gap and Adolescent Mental Health

Abstract: 

UNICEF highlights a global youth mental health crisis in the 2020s, emphasizing the need for scalable solutions. This paper proposes a two-step “test-feedback” intervention focused on aligning parental beliefs with their children’s abilities and interests. The intervention includes two treatment arms: self-learning information (T1) and online teacher-guided information (T2).…