Research

Published & Forthcoming Papers

1. “A Structural Neural Autopilot Analysis of Social Media Use Around the Pandemic Lockdown.” With Lawrence Jin, Jessica Fong, and Colin Camerer. Accepted at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2026.

2. “Asymmetric Information, Reputation, and Welfare in Online Credit Markets.” Accepted at the Rand Journal of Economics, 2025.

3. “Competing under Information Heterogeneity: Evidence from Auto Insurance.” With Marco Cosconati, Fan Wu, and Yizhou Jin. Accepted at the Review of Economic Studies, 2025. Extended abstract accepted at EC’25. Online Appendix.

4. “Financing Micro-Entrepreneurship in Online Crowdfunding Markets: What Drives Local Biases?” With Jian Ni and Fangzhu Yang. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 238, 107201, 2025. Supplymentary materials. 

5. “Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with Unobserved Choices.” With Yingyao Hu. Journal of Econometrics, 242(2), 2024.

6. “A Neural Autopilot Theory of Habit: Evidence from Consumer Purchases and Social Media Use.” With Colin Camerer and Clarice Zhao. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 121(1), 108–122, 2024.

7. “Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Incomplete Data: Sharp Identification.” With Yuya Sasaki, Yuya Takahashi, and Yingyao Hu. Journal of Econometrics, 236(1), 2023.

8. “Time-Varying Risk Aversion? Evidence from Near-Miss Accidents.” With Matthew Shum. Review of Economics and Statistics, 104 (6), 1317–1328, 2022.

9. “xtusreg: Software for Dynamic Panel Regression under Irregular Time Spacing.” With Yuya Sasaki. Stata Journal, 22 (3), 713–724, 2022. 

10. “Unequal Spacing in Dynamic Panel Data: Identification and Estimation.” With Yuya Sasaki. Journal of Econometrics, 196 (2), 320–330, 2017. 

Working Papers

1. “Estimating Nonseparable Selection Models: A Functional Contraction Approach.” With Fan Wu. 2025 Econometric Society Summer School in Econometrics and Statistics Best Paper Award.

2. “Dynamic Discrete Choice with General Time Preferences: Did Harold Zuercher Have Non-Separable Time Preferences?” With Jay Lu, Yao Luo, and Kota Saito. Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association.

3. “Optimal Linear Rank Indexes for Latent Variables.” With Yingyao Hu, Ji-Liang Shiu, and Jiaxiong Yao. Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Applied Econometrics. 

4. “Social Learning in Lung Transplant Decision.” With Laura Doval, Federico Echenique, and Wanying Huang.

Work in Progress

1. “Self-Control and Commitment in Consumer Credit Markets.” With Ke Shi.

2. “Spatial Learning in Online Dating.” With Kuan-Ming Chen, Yen-Chi Chen, and Ming-Jen Lin.