Research

Conference

DIRT: The Distributed Intelligent Replicator Toolkit
(Instructed by Aaron Walsman, postdoc at Kempner Institute, Harvard University)
Accepted into Late Breaking Abstract of Artificial Life
Manuscript: DIRT.pdf
Longer version: DIRT_full.pdf
Code: https://github.com/aaronwalsman/dirt

Selected Research Assistantship

The Incidence of Distortions
(Instructed by David Atkin)
Key Responsibilities:

• Perform statistical matching between the cleaned Chile’s national survey data and government’s administrative tax data to incorporate the informal production and consumption of the economy
• Ensure the matching quality by comparing the distribution of key variables over demographics so as to guarantee the accuracy of estimates of wedges

Emigration during Turbulent Times
(Instructed by David Young)
Key Responsibilities:

• Retrieve information of land value from the official website of Shanghai Municipal Archives
• Use OCR to extract values from the screenshots of the Land Assessment Schedule and clean the raw data into structured format, facilitating the analysis of land price’s impact on emigration

School Merging, Student Behavior and Social Norms: Experiments from Junior High School Students
(Instructed by Sharon Xuejing Zuo)
Literature Review: Gender Bias
Key Responsibilities:

• Complete a literature review around gender bias
• Lead a team to collect data from county annuals and clean the data with Python and STATA

Individual Research

Learning to be Outside: How Setting Up Girls’ Schools in Late Qing and Minguo Affects Gender Norms and Labor Supply
(Instructed by Dan Li)
Manuscript: Learning to be Outside

Individual Differences in Early Self-Regulatory Mechanisms: Bayesian Regularized Latent Class Analysis of Preschoolers’ Learning Trajectories
(Instructed by Nancy Tsai)
Manuscript: Individual Differences in Early Self-Regulatory Mechanisms

Collection of resources

• Collection of links: Useful computational resources