Yingyao Hu        胡颖尧 Professor of Economics Johns Hopkins University Curriculum Vitae
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Econometrics, Empirical industrial organization, Labor economics. Microeconomic models with latent variables, Measurement error models.
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
THE ECONOMETRICS OF UNOBSERVABLES -- Latent Variable and Measurement Error Models and Their Applications in Empirical Industrial Organization and Labor Economics  (Presentation Slides)
SELECTED PAPERS
Forthcoming: Illuminating economic growth (with Jiaxiong Yao), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming -- Media: BBC, IMF blog, IMF F&D magazine, Le Monde, The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg News, Wall St J -- Data links A simple test of completeness in a class of nonparametric specification (with Ji-Liang Shiu), Econometric Review, forthcoming. Identification of nonparametric monotonic regression models with continuous nonclassical measurement errors (with Susanne Schennach and Ji-Liang Shiu), Journal of Econometrics, , Volume 226, Issue 2 (February 2022), Pages 269-294 Micro-econometrics: A simple test of completeness in a class of nonparametric specification (with Ji-Liang Shiu), Econometric Review, forthcoming. Identification of nonparametric monotonic regression models with continuous nonclassical measurement errors (with Susanne Schennach and Ji-Liang Shiu), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming Dynamic decisions under subjective expectations: A structural analysis (with Yonghong An and Ruli Xiao), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming Global estimation of finite mixture and misclassification models with an application to multiple equilibria, (with Ruli Xiao), Econometric Review, forthcoming The econometrics of unobservables: Applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics, Journal of Econometrics, Volume 200, Issue 2, (October 2017), pages 154-168 Closed-form estimation of nonparametric models with non-classical measurement errors (with Yuya Sasaki), Journal of Econometrics, vol. 185, issue 2 (April 2015), pages 392-408 Nonparametric identification and semiparametric estimation of classical measurement error models without side information (with Susanne Schennach), Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 108, issue 501 (March 2013), pages 177-186. Nonparametric identification of dynamic models with unobserved state variables (with Matthew Shum), Journal of Econometrics, vol. 171, issue 1 (November 2012), pages 32-44. Estimation of nonlinear models with mismeasured regressors using marginal information (with Geert Ridder), Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 27, issue 3 (2012), pages 347-385. Identification and inference in nonlinear models using two samples with nonclassical measurement errors (with Raymond Carroll and Xiaohong Chen), Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 22 (2010), issue 4, pages 379-399. (Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 2010 Best Paper Award) Instrumental variable treatment of nonclassical measurement error models (with Susanne Schennach), Econometrica, vol. 76, no. 1 (2008), pages 195–216. Identification and estimation of nonlinear models with misclassification error using instrumental variables: A general solution, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 144 (2008), issue 1, pages 27-61. Empirical Industrial Organization: Identification and estimation of online price competition with an unknown number of firms (with Yonghong An and Michael Baye, John Morgan and Matthew Shum), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Volume 32, Issue 1, (January 2017), pages 80-102 Nonparametric learning rules from bandit experiments: the eyes have it! (with Yutaka Kayaba and Matthew Shum). Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 81, (September 2013), pages 215-231 Nonparametric identification of first-price auctions with non-separable unobserved heterogeneity (with David McAdams and Matthew Shum). Journal of Econometrics, vol. 174, issue 2 (June 2013), pages 186-193. Estimating first-price auctions with an unknown number of bidders: a misclassification approach (with Yonghong An and Matthew Shum), Journal of Econometrics, vol. 157 (2010), pages 328-341. Labor Economics: Misclassification errors in labor force statuses and the early identification of economic recessions (with Jiandong Sun and Shuaizhang Feng), Journal of Asian Economics, Volume 75, 2021 Semiparametric estimation of the canonical permanent-transitory model of earnings dynamics, (with Robert Moffitt and Yuya Sasaki), Quantitative Economics, Volume 10, Issue 4 (November 2019); STATA Command by Yuya Sasaki Long run trends in unemployment and labor force participation in China (with Shuaizhang Feng and Robert Moffitt), Journal of Comparative Economics, vol 45(2), (2017) pages 304-324. -- Media: Wall Street Journal (27 Oct 2016). Misclassification errors and the underestimation of U.S. unemployment rates (with Shuaizhang Feng), American Economic Review, vol. 103, issue 2 (April 2013), pages 1054-70. The fertility effect of catastrophe: U.S. hurricane births, (with Rick Evans and Zhong Zhao), Journal of Population Economics, vol. 23 (2010), issue 1, pages 1-36. (the 2013 Kuznets Prize for the best published article in the Journal of Population Economics during the period 2010-2012) Macroeconomics: Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space, (with Robert C. M. Beyer and Jiaxiong Yao), Policy Research working paper, no. WPS 9893, Washington, D.C., World Bank Group Illuminating economic growth (with Jiaxiong Yao), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming -- Media: BBC, IMF blog, IMF F&D magazine, Le Monde, The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg News, Wall St J -- Data links China’s slowdown: More there than meets the eye (a blog article with Bob Barbera) Steeling Ourselves for Less Steel Use in China (a blog article with Bob Barbera)
TEACHING
180.334 (Undergraduate Econometrics) 180.354 (Econometrics of Unobservables) 180.434 (Undergraduate Advanced Econometrics) 180.633 (Graduate Econometrics) 180.638 (Graduate Mirco-econometrics II)
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