Yu-Hsin Ho 何雨忻

Research Interest

Political Economy, Spatial Economics, Trade, Gender

PhD Core/Field Courses: Econometrics, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Topics in International Economics (Spatial Economics), Formal Models of Political Science

GPA: 4.14/4.3
Class Rank: 7/138
Bachelor Thesis: “Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Contribute Ideas: A Lean-in Intervention”
Graduate-level Courses:
- Methods: Empirical Game Theory Analysis, Empirical Methods in Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Causal Inference and Prediction in Econometrics, Economic Analysis of Social Networks, Machine Learning and Econometrics
- Fields: Spatial Economics, Media, Politics, and Globalization, Experimental Economics (Behavioral Game Theory), Labor Economics
Math Courses: Linear Algebra, Advanced Calculus (equiv. Real Analysis)

“The Impact of Female Political Leadership on Gender Attitudes: Evidence from Taiwan’s Local Councils” (with Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Matthew Yi-Hsiu Lee, and Jin-Tan Liu), 2025, Journal of Development Economics

Research Assistant to Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst, and Pete Klenow 2025–Present
- Implement a structural model of firm dynamics to study the relationship between declining business dynamism and US aggregate wage trends.
- Accelerate SMM estimation harnessing GPU clusters and parallel computing.
Research Assistant to Chang-Tai Hsieh and Wen-Tai Hsu 2024–Present
- Derive and implement a quantitative spatial model to evaluate the welfare consequences of land-use restrictions (i.e. zoning) in Taipei and US cities.
- Improve the numerical solver of structural equations to make high-dimensional problems computationally feasible.
Research Assistant to Elliott Fan 2021–Present
- Combine modern causal inference techniques with large-scale administrative data to study the origin of egalitarian gender attitudes in Taiwan, with a comparative perspective to other East Asian societies, in particular Japan and South Korea.
- Study the effects of gender political quota on women’s political representation and its social consequences on female gender attitudes.
Bachelor’s thesis supervised by Josie I Chen 2023–2024
- Design and implement lab experiments to uncover the effects of gender stereotypes on people’s willingness to speak out, and evaluate a policy intervention aiming to mitigate the welfare losses created by the stereotypes.
- Write oTree codes to conduct behavioral researches.

Study Abroad Programme for Future Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024-25, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
College Student Research Scholarship, 2023, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
Dean’s List Award, 4 semesters, National Taiwan University

Economic Science Association Asia-Pacific Meeting (APESA), Singapore, May 2024
Annual Conference of Asian & Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE), Taipei, Dec 2023
Applied Economics Workshop (AEW), Online, Aug 2023