Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019.
My research focuses on the econometrics of matching markets, with applications in college admissions, labor markets, and marriage markets.
Primary fields of interest:
Econometrics, Matching Markets, Social Interactions
Email: xiaoting_sun@sfu.ca
"Social Interactions in Endogenous Groups ", 2025, with Shuyang Sheng (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Econometrics).
"Identification and Estimation in Many-to-One Two-Sided Matching without Transfers", 2024, with Yinghua He and Shruti Sinha, Econometrica.
(This paper subsumes my Job Market Paper "Identification and Estimation of Many-to-One Matching with an Application to the U.S. College Admissions", 2019)
"Three Generations of Changing Gender Patterns of Schooling in China", 2018, with Kathleen McGarry, Journal of the Asian Pacific Economy.
"Depressive symptoms and SES among the mid-aged and elderly in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study national baseline", 2014, with Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Peng Zhang, and Yaohui Zhao, Social Science & Medicine.
"Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time: Evidence from CHARLS", 2014, with Xiaoyan Lei, James P. Smith, and Yaohui Zhao. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing.
"Health outcomes and socio-economic status among the mid-aged and elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS national baseline data", 2014, with Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Yaohui Zhao, Gonghuan Yang, Perry Hu, Yisong Hu, Xiangjun Yin, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing.
"Job Amenities: How Valuable and Costly Are They?", with Shuaizhang Feng and Chao Fu.
"Point Identifying Transfers in Marriage Markets", with Arthur Lewbel and Krishna Pendakur.