Yu-Hsin Ho (何雨忻)

Research Interests

Political Economy, Spatial Economics, Economics of Gender

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

Research Assistant for Chang-Tai Hsieh and Wen-Tai Hsu, 2024-
- Implement a quantitative urban model to evaluate the welfare costs of land-use restrictions (i.e. zoning) in Taipei and US cities.
Part-time Research Assistant for 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 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

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