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Yingyao Hu is a Chinese American economist. He is currently the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of research include econometrics, empirical industrial organization, labor economics, measurement error and latent variable models. Hu was born in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in 1972, and finished elementary, middle, and high schools in Xinjiang. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.E. in 1994 and from Fudan University with a M.A. in 1997. He studied in the Department of Economics at Michigan State University for one year in 1998, and then transferred to the Johns Hopkins University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in economics (2003) and M.S.E. in Mathematical Sciences (2001).

For more details, see the Wikipedia page created by his Ph.D. students as a gift for his 50^th birthday.