Jiusi "Josie" Xiao
About Me
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
My research interests are applied microeconomics topics, such as Economics of Crime, Labor Economics, and Public Policy. My research focuses on issues in social institutions, including inefficiencies and distortions caused by discrimination.
My job market paper examines the impact of gender matching between prosecutors and defendants on charging and conviction outcomes using administrative data from a district attorney's office with random case assignments. The findings reveal same-gender stringency in property crimes and leniency in personal crimes.
I am on the 2024-2025 Job Market
Publications
Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?
with Gopi Shah Goda; Matthew R. Levy; Colleen Flaherty Manchester; Aaron Sojourner; Joshua Tasoff, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 214 (2023): 561-573
Bullying Victims in Rural Primary Schools: Prevalence, Correlates, and Consequences
with Jingjing Tang; Huan Wang; Sarah-Eve Dill; Matthew Boswell; Scott Rozelle, International journal of environmental research and public health 19, no. 2 (2022): 765.
Working Papers
The Effect of Own Gender Prosecutor on Charging and Conviction: Evidence from Random Assignment
Building a Wall Around Science: The Effect of U.S.-China Tensions on International Scientific Research
with Robert Flynn; Britta Glennon; Raviv Murciano-Goroff
Dynamics of Online Review: The Effect of Reputations on Risky Behavior in Illicit Market
with Greg DeAngelo
Impacts of Paid Family Medical Leave Act on Labor Market Outcomes in the United States
with Uyen Le and LiHsin Lin
Selected Work in Progress
Does Prosecutor-Defendant-Victim Race Match Matter for Case Outcomes?
Teaching
Undergraduate Level (Pitzer College)
Economics Statistics , Instructor (Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2025)
Graduate Level (Claremont Graduate University)
Math for Economists, Instructor (Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
Math Camp for Economics PhD Students , Instructor (Summer 2020)
Game Theory and Asymmetric Information, Teaching Assistant (Spring 2020)
Consumer Theory and General Equilibrium , Teaching Assistant (Fall 2019)
Education
2025 Expected Graduation, Economics, Claremont Graduate University
2015 M.A., Economics, University of Southern California
2013 B.A., Economics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Southern California