Rong Hai

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami.  

Ph.D. Economics, University of Pennsylvania. 

Research Fields: Applied Microeconomics; Quantitative Economics; Labor Economics; Public Economics; Household Finance.  

My research combines structural estimation and causal identification to quantify how economic environments and frictions – including technological change, credit constraints, adjustment costs – affect human capital investment and preference formation, and how these forces propagate to affect inequality, welfare, and growth. See my research 

Panel discussion on Inequality with three Nobel Laureates [Video]. 

Teaching: 

• Ph.D.: Advanced Empirical Methods II; Labor Economics. 

• Undergraduate: Labor Economics; Public Economics; Economics of Technology and AI; Technology, Innovation, and AI in the Economy (both 2027–)

Recognized for Poets&Quants 50 Best Undergrad Professors, 2023. 

Email: rhai@bus.miami.edu · Office: 523F Jenkins · Phone: (305) 284-5731 · Google Scholar