Yu-Hsin Ho 何雨忻

[email protected] | https://bobbyho.me

Research Interests

International Trade, Spatial Economics, Political Economy

Education

Master’s Student in Economics, National Taiwan University 2024–Present (on leave)

• Visiting UC Berkeley in the 2024–25 academic year as first-year Master’s student.
• On leave of absence since Fall 2025.

Visiting Student, University of California, Berkeley 2024–25

• Ph.D. Core/Field Courses: Econometrics (A), Political Economy (A+), Industrial Organization (A), Topics in International Economics (Spatial Economics) (A), Formal Models of Political Science (A)

B.A. in Economics, National Taiwan University 2020–24

• GPA: 4.14/4.3
• Class Rank: 7/138
• Thesis: “Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Contribute Ideas: A Lean-in Intervention”
• Selected Courses:
  • Math: Linear Algebra (A-, B+), Advanced Calculus (equiv. Real Analysis) (A+, A+)
  • Graduate-level Methods: Economic Analysis of Social Networks (A+), Machine Learning and Econometrics (A+)
  • Graduate-level Fields: Behavioral Game Theory (A+), Labor Economics (A+)

Publications

• “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

Working Papers

• “Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Contribute Ideas: A Lean-in Intervention” (with Josie I Chen), 2024

Research Experience

• 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.

Grants and Awards

• 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

Conference Presentations

• 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