Publications
"Causal Inference under Selection on Observables in Operations Management Research: Matching Methods and Synthetic Controls," with Guangzhi Shang, Yoon Son, and Övünç Yılmaz. Journal of Operations Management, 2024
''Scoring a Touchdown with Variable Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the NFL Ticket Markets,''with Necati Tereyağoğlu and Övünç Yılmaz. Management Science, 2023
Media: Informs
''Preference Submission Timing and College Admission Outcomes: Evidence from Turkey,'' with Yang Song and Tong Wang. Review of Economic Design, 2023
''Data-Driven Sports Ticket Pricing for Multiple Sales Channels with Heterogeneous Customers,'' with Rob Easley, Ruxian Wang, and Övünç Yılmaz. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022.
POMS Applied Research Challenge Finalist
''Preference Estimation in Centralized College Admissions from Reported Lists,'' Empirical Economics, 2021.
Household International Best Paper Award - Vanderbilt University (2015)
Working Papers
Auctions
''On the Timing of Auctions: The Effects of Complementarities on Bidding, Participation, and Welfare," The Effects of Complementarities on Bidding, Participation, and Welfare,'' with Alex Arsenault and Matt Gentry.
Conditional Acceptance - RAND Journal of Economics
Abstract appears in Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC23)
''Auctions vs Negotiations under Corruption: Evidence from Land Sales in China,'' with Qidi Hu(Corresponding Author) and Robert Clark.
College Admissions
''An Empirical Analysis of College Admissions with Endogenous Entrance Exam Scores''
CEA (2019, Banff); AMES (2019, Xiamen); CMES (2019, Guangzhou); EEA (2019, Manchester); Jinan University (2021); Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting (2022, Miami)
Press: University World News
"How do centralized admission mechanisms affect students' effort choices?"
Econometrics/Labor Economics
''Testing the effects of an unobservable factor: Do marriage prospects affect college-major choice?'' with Brantly Callaway and Tong Li.
Taiwan Economic Research Workshop (2023, Taipei - by Tong); National University of Singapore (2023, Singapore - by Tong) ; University of Notre Dame (2023, Singapore - by Tong) ; University of Pennsylvania (2023, Singapore - by Tong)