About Me
I received my PhD in Economics from Cornell University in 2019. My primary fields are Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, and Experimental Economics.
The majority of my research employs the experimental approach (lab/lab-in-the-field experiments and choice experiments) to examine preferences and behaviors and their impact on public goods provision, rural-urban migration, labor market inequality, and human capital investment. For my job market paper, I performed a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural China to examine the effect of social network and social pressure on voting outcomes for rural public goods. Another major chapter of my dissertation is a combination of theoretical modeling and choice experiment, where I investigated the rural-urban labor market segmentation as a result of heterogeneous preferences for job characteristics and market search frictions.
I currently work as a Senior Applied Scientist at Uber, but I have been collaborating with scholars from Cornell University, Peking University, and the Asian Development Bank on research projects related to labor market inequality and development economics.
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