I am a PhD candidate in Economics from Yale University, specializing in Econometrics. I will be on the job market from 2026-27.
My CV is available here.
I publish under my Chinese name Wenxuan (pronounced as wun-shwern); I go by Olivia. To contact me, please email olivia.ding@yale.edu
Working Papers
Partial Identification and Inference for Peer Effects, Job Market Paper
Testing Conditional Moment Restrictions in Networks
Nonparametric Subgraph Regression
Confidence Intervals for GMM Estimators Under Constrained Dependence (with P. M. Aronow)
Work In Progress
Misspecification Robust Inference in Peer Effects Models
Weak Identification with Bounds for Peer Effects
Publications
The minimum number of multiplicity 1 eigenvalues among real symmetric matrices whose graph is a linear tree. (2023) Linear Algebra and its Applications, 665, 315-338 (with Charles R. Johnson)
The minimum number of multiplicity 1 eigenvalues among real symmetric matrices whose graph is a 2-linear tree. (2023) Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 71:6, 945-960 (with Charles R. Johnson and Matthew Ingwersen)
Uniformly sparse graphs and matrices. (2024) Involve, 17:2, 249-262 (with Charles R. Johnson and Yuqiao Li)
The minimum number of multiplicity 1 eigenvalues among real symmetric matrices whose graph is a nonlinear tree. (2021) Special Matrices, 10, 203-218 (with Charles R. Johnson)
A note on unitarily invariant matrix norms. (2020) Linear Algebra and its Applications, 607, 341-346 (with Chi-Kwong Li and Yuqiao Li)
Yale University
ECON 550: Econometrics I (PhD), Teaching Assistant to Prof. Don Andrews, Fall 2024
ECON 552: Econometrics III (PhD), Teaching Assistant to Prof. Yuichi Kitamura, Spring 2024 and 2025
ECON 558: Econometrics (Masters), Teaching Assistant to Prof. Michael Boozer, Fall 2023
William & Mary
ECON 408: Time Series Econometrics (Undergrad), Teaching Assistant to Prof. Carl Moody, Spring 2021
MATH 214: Foundation of Math (Undergrad), Grader for Prof. Sarah Day, Spring 2020 and for Prof. Chi-Kwong Li, Fall 2019
MATH 211: Linear Algebra (Undergrad), Grader for Prof. Charles Johnson, Fall 2019