I am Lei Bill Wang, an Economics PhD candidate from the Ohio State University. I am on the 2025-2026 job market. My research interests are public economics and econometrics. I develop microeconometric and statistical tools that inform public policy design. You can find my CV here.

Working Papers

Policy-Oriented Binary Classification: Improving (KD-)CART Final Splits for Subpopulation Targeting (with Zhenbang Jiao and Fangyi Wang) [Accepted by AISTATS]

Job Market Paper Attention vs Choice in Incomplete Welfare Take-up: What Works for WIC? (with Sooa Ahn)

Conferences: World Congress of Econometric Society 2025, ASSA 2026, MEG2025, AYEW 2025, GLO Job Market Session

Balancing Efficiency and Equity in Classroom Assignment under Endogenous Peer Effects (with Om Prakash Bedant, Zhenbang Jiao and Haoran Wang) [submitted]

Conferences: WUSTL Graduate Student Conference 2024, MEG 2024

First place at 2024 Haye's Forum poster competition

Estimating Overidentified Linear Models with Heteroskedasticity and Outliers

Conferences: IAAE 2023 with travel grant, MEG 2023, WUSTL Graduate Student Conference 2023

Publication

Financial Thought Experiment: A GAN-based Approach to Vast Robust Portfolio Selection (with Chi Seng Pun and Hoi Ying Wong, 2020) Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth IJCAI Special Track on AI in FinTech

A Cost-Effective Approach to Portfolio Construction with Range-Based Risk Measures (with Chi Seng Pun, 2019) Quantitative Finance, 21:3, 431-447

Pareto Criterion and Long-Term Perspective Criterion under Myopic Discounting (with Minwook Kang, 2019) Economics Bulletin, 39:1, 24-32

Get in touch at wang.13945@osu.edu

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