Yuen Ho
Job Market Paper:
Selection and Sorting when Supervisors have Discretion: Experimental Evidence from a Tanzanian Factory
Dissertation:
Four essays on psychology and economics
CV:
Fields of research:
- Development
- Behavioral
- Labor
Publications / Working Papers:
- Selection and Sorting when Supervisors have Discretion: Experimental Evidence from a Tanzanian Factory - [JMP] with Yihong Huang, Working Paper, December 2024
- Breaking the Spiral of Silence - with Yihong Huang, Working Paper, October 2024
- The Psychology of Poverty: Current and Future directions - with Ye Rang Park, Kristina Hallez, Supreet Kaur, Mahesh Srinivasan, and Jiaying Zhao, Forthcoming, Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Gender Differences in Competition: The Role of Rank Effects - Draft available upon request
Education:
- PhD, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (Expected May 2025)
- MA, International Economics and Relations, Johns Hopkins University SAIS (2015)
- BA, Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2012)
Honors and Awards:
- Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study (2019 - 2024)
- UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Research Award (2024)
- CEGA Development Economics Challenge Research Award (Fall 2022, Spring 2024)
- Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics Research Award (2023)
- UC Berkeley Xlab Research Award (2022)
- J-PAL Gender and Economic Agency Initiative Research Award (2021)
Teaching:
- MBA Data and Decisions, Maximilian Auffhammer, Graduate Student Instructor (Fall 2024)
- Applied Econometrics, Sofia Villas-Boas, Graduate Student Instructor (Spring 2024)
- Development Economics, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Graduate Student Instructor (Fall 2023)
- The Economics of Innovation, Brian Wright, Graduate Student Instructor (Spring 2023)
References:
Jeremy Magruder
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Email: jmagruder@berkeley.edu
Tel: (510) 643 - 8742Supreet Kaur
Associate Professor, Economics
Email: supreet@berkeley.edu
Tel: (510) 642 - 0822Edward Miguel
Distinguished Professor, Economics
Email: emiguel@berkeley.edu
Tel: (510) 642 - 716Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Email: ricardo.truglia@anderson.ucla.edu
Tel: (617) 875 - 4437
Contact Information:
245 Giannini Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720
Email: yuen_ho@berkeley.edu
Tel: (919) 244 - 8718
Website: yuen-ho.com
Placement Directors:
Professor Maximilian Auffhammer
auffhammer@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-5472
Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
sberto@berkeley.edu
Placement Officer:
Diana Lazo
lazo@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3345
