Huaiping Yuan

About

I am a PhD student in economics at the University of Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute. My research lies at the intersection of labor and behavioral/experimental economics. I often combine lab experiments with field data to answer policy-relevant questions related to personality traits. I am particularly interested in the impact of personality traits on labor market outcomes, including gender differences, and the origin of personality traits, with the end goal of understanding sources of inequality and how to counter them. Thomas Buser and Erik Plug are my supervisors.

I am currently on the academic job market. You can contact me at h.yuan@uva.nl. My recommendation letters are managed by our placement assistant, Arianne de Jong (a.dejong@tinbergen.nl). 

Publications

Public Speaking Aversion Accepted at Management Science (with Thomas Buser) 

Do women give up competing more easily? Evidence from the lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (with Thomas Buser) 

Working Papers

Pitfalls of pay transparency: Evidence from the lab and the field (with Katharina Brütt, Reinhard Selten Award 2022)

The effects of in utero Ramadan exposure on Big Five personality outcomes (Coming soon)

Work in Progress

Discrimination under public observability: can transparency lead to a fair hiring process? (funded by A Sustainable Future grant, 2022)

Competition entry and coordination: a strategic role of overconfidence

Public Speaking Aversion over the life cycle (with Thomas Buser)