Yingyao Hu           胡颖尧 

Assistant Professor of Economics

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2003

Curriculum Vitae

 

On Leave at Harvard University Department of Economics Fall Semester 2008.

 

Department of Economics

Johns Hopkins University

440 Mergenthaler Hall

3400 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, MD 21218

 

Office: Mergenthaler Hall 461

Tel: 410-516-7610

Fax: 410-516-7600

Email: yhu @ jhu . edu

Web: http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/hu/

Research Interests

Micro-econometrics and its applications, Measurement error models, Latent variable models, Identification.

 

Working Papers

Nonparametric identification of dynamic models with unobserved state variables (with Matthew Shum), Working Paper #543, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University; Cemmap Working Paper CWP13/08. Submitted.

 

Identification and estimation of nonlinear models using two samples with nonclassical measurement errors (with Raymond Carroll and Xiaohong Chen); An old version: Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper no. 1590. Revise and resubmit.

 

On deconvolution as a first stage nonparametric estimator (with Geert Ridder). Revise and resubmit.

 

Estimating first-price auctions with unknown number of bidders: a misclassification approach (with Matthew Shum), Working Paper #541, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Submitted.

 

Identifying the returns to lying when the truth is unobserved (with Arthur Lewbel), Working Paper #540, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Submitted.

 

Bounding the effect of a dichotomous regressor with arbitrary measurement errors (with P. Deng), available at SSRN (Social Science Research Network), Submitted.

 

Nonparametric identification of the classical errors-in-variables model without side information (with Susanne Schennach and Arthur Lewbel), Cemmap Working Paper CWP14/07. Submitted.

 

Estimation of nonlinear models with mismeasured regressors using marginal information (with Geert Ridder), Submitted.

 

Work in Progress

Instrumental variable estimation of nonlinear models with nonclassical measurement error using control variates (with Jinyong Hahn and Geert Ridder)

 

Nonparametric estimation of auction models with unobserved heterogeneity: a general approach (with David McAdams and Matthew Shum)

 

Structural estimation of price clearinghouse models using online price data (with Michael Baye, John Morgan and Matthew Shum)

 

Estimation of treatment effects on the treated by combining a randomized sample (with Geert Ridder and Zhong Zhao)

 

Publications

The fertility effect of catastrophe: U.S. hurricane births (with Rick Evans and Zhong Zhao), Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.

 

Nonparametric identification and estimation of nonclassical errors-in-variables models without additional information (with Xiaohong Chen and Arthur Lewbel), Statistica Sinica, forthcoming.

 

A note on the closed-form identification of regression models with a mismeasured binary regressor (with Xiaohong Chen and Arthur Lewbel), Statistics and Probability Letters, forthcoming.

 

Nonparametric identification of regression models containing a misclassified dichotomous regressor without instruments (with Xiaohong Chen and Arthur Lewbel), Economics Letters, forthcoming.

 

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.

 

Instrumental variable treatment of nonclassical measurement error models and Supplementary material (with Susanne Schennach), Econometrica, vol. 76, No. 1 (2008), pages 195–216.

 

Bounding parameters in a linear regression model with a mismeasured regressor using additional information, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 133 (2006), issue 1, pages 51-70.

 

Is area yield insurance competitive with farm yield insurance? (with Barry Barnett, Roy Black, and Jerry Skees) Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 30 (2005), no. 2, pages 285-301.

 

Cooperatives and capital markets: the case of Minnesota-Dakota sugar beet cooperatives, (with Roy Black and Barry Barnett) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 81 (1999), no. 5, proceedings issue, pages 1240-1246.

 

Teaching

Spring 2008: Econometrics (180.633), Micro-econometrics II (180.638)

 

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