Working Papers

1. "STEM Gender Gap in Higher Education: Demand, Supply, and Better Policies" (New Draft Coming Soon)

• w/ YingHua He and Jin-Tan Liu 

2. "The Global Gender Gap in STEM Applications: Pipeline vs. Choice" (Revised and Resubmitted @ Economics of Education Review)

• w/ Isaac Ahimbisibwe, Adam Altjmed, Georgy Artemov, Andrés Barrios-Fernández, Aspasia Bizopoulou, Martti Kaila, Jin-Tan Liu, Rigissa Megalokonomou, José Montalbán, Christopher Neilson, Sebastián Otero, and Xiaoyang Ye

3. "Spatial Inequality and High School Choice: Implications from Mexico City"

• w/ Victor Delgado and Rui Zeng

4. "The End of One Exam: Centralized Assignment Reform, Student Choice, and School Quality" 

• w/ Victor Delgado and Rui Zeng

Selected Work in Progress

"Right-Sizing an All-Charter School District: An Equilibrium Analysis of New Orleans Public Schools System," w/ Dong Woo Hahm, Douglas Harris, Qinyou Hu, and Shangkun Xie.

"Decentralizing the Centralized College Admissions Market: Evidence from Taiwan's Batched Multi-offer Deferred Acceptance Mechanism," w/ Jin-Tan Liu. (Draft Coming Soon)

• Abstract: The application-based college admission channel in Taiwan operates a hybrid mechanism, combining decentralized holistic evaluation by programs with centralized assignment after students receive batched multiple offers (and waitlists). The mechansim has a unique feature: before submitting her final rank-ordered list, every applicant observes her exact position in the published ranking of each program that offers or waitlists her. Leveraging administrative records on complete program rankings and student choices, we identify and estimate preferences of both sides of the matching market via a structural model, disentangling their vertical (common) and horizontal (idiosyncratic) components. Counterfactual simulations quantify the allocative and welfare consequences of ranking-position revelation, the value of decentralized evaluation relative to exam-based assignment, and how expanding the application-based quota reshapes matching outcomes and inequality across sociodemographic groups.

"Priority Design, Immigration Policies, and Educational Track Choice in Finland," w/ Qinyou Hu.

"Reserve-seat Policies in China’s High School Admissions."