Yu-Hsin Ho 何雨忻

Research Interests

International Trade, Spatial Economics, Political Economy

Thesis: “Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Contribute Ideas: A Lean-in Intervention”

“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

“Zoning: Externalities or Misallocation?” (with Chang-Tai Hsieh, Wen-Tai Hsu, and Yu-Jhih Luo), 2026
“Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Contribute Ideas: A Lean-in Intervention” (with Josie I Chen), 2024

RA and coauthor of Chang-Tai Hsieh (Chicago Booth) and Wen-Tai Hsu (Academia Sinica) 2024–Present
- Derive and implement a quantitative spatial model to evaluate the welfare consequences of urban land-use misallocation.
- Prove welfare properties of the laissez-faire land allocation.
- Improve the numerical solver of structural equations to make high-dimensional optimization problems computationally feasible.
RA to Chang-Tai Hsieh (Chicago Booth), Erik Hurst (Chicago Booth), and Pete Klenow (Stanford) 2025–Present
- Implement a structural model of firm dynamics to study the relationship between declining business dynamism, US aggregate wage trends, and firm wage effects.
- Accelerate SMM estimation harnessing GPU clusters and parallel computing.
RA and coauthor of Elliott Fan (National Taiwan University) 2021–Present
- Using causal inference techniques with large administrative data to study the origin of egalitarian gender norms and attitudes in Taiwan.
- Study the effects of gender quota on women’s political representation and its consequences on gender norms and behaviors of female voters.
Bachelor’s thesis supervised by Josie I Chen (National Taiwan University) 2023–2024
- Using a lab experiment to uncover the effects of gender stereotypes on willingness to contribute ideas.
- Evaluate a policy intervention aiming to mitigate the inefficiency created by the stereotypes.

Taiwan–Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowships, 2026, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
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
- College Student Research Creativity Award (awarded to 5% of grant recipients)
Dean’s List Award (top 5%), 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