Advising (back to top)

PhD Dissertation Committee at MSU Economics

• Xin Liu, committee member, 2021-present.
• Wenjia Cao, committee member, 2019-2025. (Singapore Management University Assistant Professor in 2025)
• Xu Dong, committee member, 2019-2025. (T-Mobile Data Scientist in 2025)
• Katherine Zhou, committee member, 2018-2024. (Southeastern Louisiana U Assistant Professor in 2024; College of Holy Cross Assistant Professor in 2025)
• Pallavi Pal, committee member, 2014-2020. (Stevens Institute of Technology Assistant Professor in 2020)

PhD Mentoring at MSU Economics

• Willy Chen, Red Cedar third year paper committee member, 2025.
• Kevin Mi, Red Cedar third year paper committee member, 2025.
• Younghee Son, Red Cedar third year paper committee member, 2025.
• Xu Dong, Directed Research Fellowship, 2022.
• Katherine Zhou, Directed Research Fellowship, 2020, 2021.
• Zijian Qi, Red Cedar third year paper committee member, 2019. (Texas Tech University Assistant Professor in 2025)
• Kaidi Wu, Directed Research Fellowship, 2018.
• Chris Fowler, Directed Research Fellowship, 2017.
• Quinton Baker, Directed Research Fellowship, 2016.

PhD and Masters Thesis Committee outside MSU Economics

• Hasan Gokberk Bayhan, construction management PhD, MSU, committee member, 2020-2025.
• Adna Bashir, economics PhD, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, external reviewer, 2024.
• Naima Mubeen, economics PhD, National College of Business Administration and Economics, Pakistan, external reviewer, 2024.
• Venkataram Chebiyyam, applied math master, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India, committee member, 2023.
• Arnav Jain, construction management master, MSU, commitee member, 2023.

Mentored Predoctoral Students in PhD Programs

• Nantong Chen, University of Michigan master, 2024-2025. (University of Warwick economics PhD)
• Reza Yarbakhsh, University of Tehran master, 2024-2025. (University of Virginia computer science PhD)
• Knickolas Laux, MSU undergrad, 2023-2025. (Princeton University economics PhD)
• Hanzhang Zhou, Tsinghua University undergrad, 2023-2025. (MIT Sloan TIES PhD)
• Oliver Wenbao Dai, University of Minnesota undergrad, 2022-2023. (University of Minnesota finance PhD)
• Yao Hou, Tsinghua University master, 2022. (University of Rochester economics PhD)
• Hong Zhu, MSU statistics master, 2022. (MSU biostatistics PhD)
• Peiyi Jin, SWUFE undergrad, 2019-2020. (National University of Singapore economics PhD)
• Hanshi Zuo, MSU undergrad, 2018-2020. (Penn State economics PhD)
• Yue Li, Nankai University undergrad, 2018-2019. (University College London economics PhD)
• Dongming Yu, University of Michigan undergrad, 2017-2018. (MSU economics PhD)
• Kim Gannon, MSU undergrad, 2016-2017. (Yale health policy and management PhD)
• Eileen Fang, Peking University undergrad, 2016. (University of Southern California economics PhD)

Predoctoral Mentoring at MSU

• Giles Alva, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, S2025-present.
• Armagan Caglayan, S2025-present.
• Mohsin Christi (dual enrollee from Michigan Virtual Charter Academy), S2025-present.
• Jiarui Hu, S2025-present.
• Ayuushi Khanna, S2025-present.
• Ian Kim (dual enrollee from Okemos High School), S2025-present.
• Tyler Webb, S2025-present.
• Emery Akimanzi, F2024.
• Harrison Kubichi, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2024-S2025. (University of Michigan JD)
• Sarah Bejleri, Econ Scholar and Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2024-S2026.
• Anh Nguyen, Pathway to Research, F2023-present.
• William Carvalho, Econ Scholar, F2023-S2025.
• Jiayi Gu, PURI, F2023-S2025.
• Cassidy Yoder, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2023-S2024.
• John Ahlin (University of Michigan), MSU ACRES NSF REU, Su2023.
• Knickolas Laux, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative and Dean's Assistantship, Su2023-S2025. (Princeton University economics PhD)
• Attulya (Ace) Gupta, Pathway to Research, F2022-S2024.
• Rainy Jain, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2022-S2023.
• Nadav Langberg, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2022.
• Meital Lurie, Honors College Professorial Assistantship & PURI, F2022–present.
• Quang Nguyen, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2022–S2023.
• Jay Stansberry, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2022–S2023.
• Calder Moore, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, Su2022–S2023.
• Grace Chang Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MSU ACRES NSF REU, Su2022.
• Aylin Garcia, University of Texas at El Paso, MSU SROP, Su2022.
• Nick Balesky, Econ Scholar, F2021-S2023.
• Matt DiRisio, Honors College Professorial Assistantship & PURI, F2021–S2022.
• Leyna Gatti, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2021–S2022.
• Lian Martin, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2021–S2022. (UCSD data science master)
• Jack Metty, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2021–S2023.
• Sarah Pilewski, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2021–Su2022.
• Conner Roy, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2021–S2022.
• Tanner Thering, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2021–S2022. (Boston Fed RA)
• Archan Tulpule, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2021–S2023.
• Junheng Yue, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2021–S2022. (Wake Forest business analytics master)
• Tran Nguyen-Phuong (Tulane), MSU SROP, Su2021.
• Alexander Fos, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, Su2021. (Wisconsin economics master's)
• Evan Seyhun, Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, Su2021.
• Nicholas Butler, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2020-F2021.
• Josephine Pelton, Econ Scholars, F2020-S2022.
• Babur Kocaoglu, S2020. (NY Fed RA)
• Ethan Pritchard, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2019-S2023.
• Jack Mueller, Econ Scholars and Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2018-S2021 (SF Fed RA).
• Hanshi Zuo, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2018-S2020. (Penn State economics PhD)
• Lauren Nicole Schwartz, Econ Scholars, F2018-S2020 (MSU marketing research master).
• Alexis Hollowell, Econ Scholars, F2017-S2019 (MSU human resource and labor relations master).
• Nicholas Anderson, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2017-S2018.
• Whitney Zhou, Econ Scholars and Provost Undergraduate Research Initiative, F2016-S2019.
• Jacob Schmitter, Honors College Professorial Assistantship, F2016-S2017.
• Kim Gannon, Dean's Assistantship and PURI, Su2016-S2017. (J-PAL RA; Yale public health and management PhD)

Predoctoral Mentoring outside MSU

• Yazhuo Cai, Tsinghua University, 2025-present.
• Hongrui Wei, Peking University, 2025-present.
• Khushi Santosh Surana, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, 2025-present.
• Zhaodi Wang, Wuhan University, 2025-present.
• Yiyang Qin, Fudan University, 2025-present.
• Meilin Tang, London School of Economics, 2025-present.
• Zekai Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, 2025-present.
• Alan Hongming Mao, BASIS Independent McLean, 2024-present.
• Reza Yarbakhsh, University of Tehran, 2024-2025. (University of Virginia computer science PhD)
• Nantong Chen, University of Michigan, 2024-2025. (University of Warwick economics PhD)
• Hanzhang Zhou, Tsinghua University, 2023-2025. (MIT Sloan TIES PhD)
• Xinyi Xue, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2023. (University of Chicago public policy master with certificate in research methods)
• Oliver Wenbao Dai, University of Minnesota, 2022-2023. (University of Minnesota finance PhD)
• Yao Hou, Tsinghua University, 2021-2022. (University of Rochester economics PhD)
• Shuman Zhang, University of Minnesota, 2021-2023. (NYU economics master; Penn Wharton RA)
• Peiyi Jin, SWUFE, 2019-2020. (National University of Singapore economics PhD)
• Rohini Das, Jadavpur, 2019. (University of Alberta computer science master)
• Suo Shi, University of Wisconsin, 2019. (Cambridge economics MPhil)
• Yue Li, Nankai University, 2018-2019. (Oxford economics MPhil; UCL economics PhD).
• Dongming Yu, University of Michigan, 2017-2018. (MSU economics PhD).
• Eileen Fang, Peking University, 2016 (USC economics PhD).

MSU Undergraduates Recommended to Graduate Programs

• Knickolas Laux, 2025, Princeton University, PhD in Economics.
• Hanshi Zuo, 2024, Penn State University, PhD in Economics.
• Duo Shen, 2021, Brandeis University, MS in Business Analytics.
• Zewei Li, 2021, Columbia University, MSc in Applied Analytics.
• Qingtong Zheng, 2020, LSE, MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change.
• Hao Wang, 2020, University of Southern California, MSc in Finance.
• Yibing Sun, 2020, University of Glasgow, MSc in Finance and Management.
• Kexin Guo, 2019, Boston University, Master of Arts in Economics.
• Chengcheng Zhao, 2019, Korea University, Master of Business Administration.
• Zhongyao Zhou, 2019, Columbia University, Master of Science in Actuarial Science.
• Zixun Lu, 2018, Boston College, Master of Science in Finance.
• Xinyi Fan, 2017, Boston College, Master of Science in Finance.
• Joshua Jackson, 2017, Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical Doctorate.
• Tianchi Liang, 2017, Boston University, Master in Management Studies.
• Siyao Xue, 2017, Northeastern University, Master of Arts in Economics.
• Haixia Zhu, 2017, Johns Hopkins University, Master of Science in Finance.

Outreach (back to top)

General Audience Engagement and Presentations

• Navigating the Publication Process, MSU Department of Economics Graduate Student Professional Development Seminar, April 2025.
• Can Machine Learning Help Team Performance?,
• Science in the Garden, MSU Science Festival, April 2022.
• Gardner International Magnet School, 7th graders, April 2022.
• Fireside Chat, MSU Honors College, September 2021.
• Economics Graduate School, MSU Summer Research Opportunities Program for underrepresented students, July 2021.
• How Do People Pair Up?, MSU Science Festival, April 2021.
• Generating and Developing Research Ideas, MSU Department of Economics Graduate Student Professional Development Seminar, March 2019.
• Academic Economics Job Market, HCEO Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, July 2016.
• The Game of Life: Understanding Education & Marriage with Game Theory, Women & Leadership Archives, Loyola University of Chicago, March 2015.
• Expose Yourself! Endless LOVE, University of Chicago, February 2014.

Media Mentions and Interviews

• High and rising concentration of award-winning economists (with Richard B. Freeman, Danxia Xie, and Hanzhang Zhou),
  July 2024.
  Media coverage: The Atlantic, Financial Times, Firstpost, Forbes, Forum New Economy, Guardian
• 26 Amazon Research Awards recipients announced, January 2023.
  featured on major Chinese media outlets such as Tencent, Sohu, Sina, 163, and Zhihu.
• Assortative mating on blood type: Evidence from one million Chinese pregnancies (with Yao Hou, Ke Tang, Jingyuan Wang, and Danxia Xie),
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2022.
  featured on blogs such as Marginal Revolution, National Affairs, and Bipartisan Alliance.
  featured on major Chinese media outlets such as Tencent, Sohu, Sina, Zhihu, and Yahoo Taiwan.
• Losing common ground: New MSU study reveals rising American political extremism, animosity and activism, MSU College of Social Science News, September 2022.
• Meridian Township's Chinese Restaurants in the Pandemic, Spartan Newsroom, April 2021.
• MSU Receives $1.2M NSF Grant to Study Intelligent Social Network Interventions, MSU Today, January 2020.
• How Your Marriage Can Affect Your Health, Femina (the oldest magazine for women in India), February 2018.
• Three Questions with Hanzhe Zhang, Human Capital and Economic Opportunities Global Working Group, June 2016.
• HCEO Announces First Summer Scholar-in-Residence, Human Capital and Economic Opportunities Global Working Group, May 2016.

Seminar Organization (back to top)

• Organizer, Economic Theory Seminar, MSU, 2016F-2017S, 2021F-2023S.
• Co-founder, Theory Reading Group, MSU, 09/2019-08/2024.
• Organizer, MSU Theory/Macro Brown Bag, 09/2015-08/2024.
• Organizer and co-founder (with James Heckman), Family Game Theory Reading Group, Human Capital and Economic Opportunities, 02/2016-09/2016.
• Organizer and co-founder, Chicago Chinese Social Research Group, 09/2013-06/2025.
• Organizer, Economic Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, 01/2013-06/2015.
• Organizer and co-founder, Market Design Reading Group, University of Chicago, 04/2012-06/2015.

Committees (back to top)

• Member, Board of Directors, Spartan Chinese School, 06/2024–05/2026.
• Judge, University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum, 04/2025.
• Chair, Qualifying Exam Committee, MSU, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
• Member, Qualifying Exam Committee, MSU, 2016, 2018, 2019.
• Member, Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee, MSU, 2016-2017, 2022-2023.
• Member, Extended Advisory Committee, MSU, 06/2019.
• Alumni interviewer for undergraduate admissions, University of Pennsylvania, 09/2018-present.
• Member, Departmental Computer Committee, MSU, 09/2016-05/2017.
• Member, Advisory Committee, MSU, 09/2015-08/2016.
• Member, Kravis Award Committee for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.

Refereeing (back to top)

Journals

• American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
• American Economic Review
• American Economic Review: Insights
• American Mathematical Monthly
• China Economic Review
• Economic Modelling
• Economic Theory
• Economics of Education Review
• European Economic Review
• Frontiers in Robots and AI
• Frontiers in Sociology
• Games
• Games and Economic Behavior
• Information Systems Research
• International Journal of Economic Theory
• International Journal of Game Theory
• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
• Journal of Economic Psychology
• Journal of Economic Theory
• Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
• Journal of Evolutionary Economics
• Journal of Human Resources
• Journal of Labor Economics
• Journal of Political Economy
• Journal of Public Economic Theory
• Journal of Sports Economics
• Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
• Oxford Economic Papers
• PLOS ONE
• Quantitative Economics
• Research on Aging
• Sustainability
• Theoretical Economics

Conference Proceedings

• American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Research Congress (ASCE CRC)
• Track: Automation in construction
• Track: Infrastructure systems, sustainability, and resilience
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop

Books

• Open Textbook Network
• W. W. Norton & Company

Grants

• National Science Foundation (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
• French National Agency