Yu-Hsin Ho (何雨忻)

Research Interests

Economics of Gender, Political Economy, Spatial Economics

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

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

Impacts of Female Business Owners on Female Workers in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Production Network Reshoring and Workers Mobility under Foreign Demand Shock
Firm Size, Hierarchy, and Within-Firm Gender Inequality
Gender Differential Responses to the US-China Trade War

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

Part-time Research Assistant for Professor Elliott Fan, 2021-
- Utilize large-scale Taiwanese administrative data to shed light on the origin of egalitarian gender attitudes in Taiwan, with a comparative perspective in East Asian societies.
- Heavy use of modern causal inference techniques: Diff-in-Diffs, IV, and RDD.
Bachelor’s thesis supervised by Professor 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
Academic Excellence Award (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023), National Taiwan University