Biography

Shuyang Sheng received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining us, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her primary research areas are econometrics and labor economics. She specializes in developing econometric methods for network formation models and social interaction models. Her work has been published in Econometrica and Journal of Labor Economics.


Publications

1.       Adriana Lleras-Muney, Matthew Miller, Shuyang Sheng, and Veronica Sovero. 2024. Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence. Forthcoming at Journal of Labor Economics.

2.       Jinyong Hahn, Zhipeng Liao, Nan Liu, and Shuyang Sheng. 2024. Some Finite-Sample Results on the Hausman Test. Economics Letters, 238 (5), 111721.

3.       Shuyang Sheng. 2020. A Structural Econometric Analysis of Network Formation Games Through Subnetworks. Econometrica, 88 (5): 1829-1858.