Haitian Xie
Assistant Professor · Peking University · Guanghua School of Management
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I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Peking University, Guanghua School of Management, Department of Business Statistics and Econometrics.
My research focuses on causal inference, econometrics, and policy learning.
I obtained my PhD in 2023 from the Economics Department at UC San Diego, where I had the privilege of being co-advised by Professor Graham Elliott and Professor Yixiao Sun. Prior to that, I received my BA in Economics and BS in Mathematics from Wuhan University.
Email: xht [at] gsm [dot] pku [dot] edu [dot] cn
Working Papers
"Data-driven Policy Learning for Continuous Treatments," with Chunrong Ai, Yue Fang.
"Difference-in-Differences Meets Synthetic Control: Doubly Robust Identification and Estimation," with Yixiao Sun, Yuhang Zhang.
Publications
"Model Selection for Multivalued-Treatment Policy Learning in Observational Studies," with Yue Fang, Jin Xi, (2025). Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, accepted.
"On the Limitations of Data-Based Price Discrimination," with Ying Zhu, Denis Shishkin, (2025). Theoretical Economics, 20(1), 303-351. Extended abstract at EC '24: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.
"Nonlinear and Nonseparable Structural Functions in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Continuous Treatment," (2024). Journal of Econometrics, 242(1), 105784.
"Efficient and Robust Estimation of the Generalized LATE Model," (2024). Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 42(3), 1053-1065.
"Uniform Convergence Results for the Local Linear Estimation of the Conditional Distribution," (2023). Statistics & Probability Letters, 201, 109886.
"Strength in numbers: robust mechanisms for public goods with many agents," with Jin Xi, (2023). Social Choice and Welfare, 61(3), 649-683.
"Global Representation of the Conditional LATE Model: A Separability Result," with Yu-Chang Chen, (2022). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84(4), 789-798.
Teaching
Causal Inference (PhD): 2024, 2025