Research
My research mainly builds on two streams. One, how we can learn and make good decisions when the data we observe are themselves shaped by earlier decisions. The other asks how markets, platforms, and institutions should be designed when people respond to prices, contracts, rules, and new technologies.
Learning & Decision-Making
How can we learn, evaluate, and optimize policies when decisions determine what we observe?
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Selective Labels and Counterfactuals: Why Diagnostics Are Not Enough
What can we learn about counterfactual outcomes when past human decisions determine which outcomes are observed?
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Learning with Selectively Observed Treatments
What can we learn when the treatment itself is observed only when the outcome is observed?
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The Winner's Curse: Why Optimizing Structural Models Overpromises and Underdelivers
How should we evaluate a policy generated by an optimized structural model?
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Rethinking Algorithmic Fairness for Human-AI Collaboration
How should algorithmic recommendations account for biased human compliance so the combined human–AI system remains fairer than human decisions alone?
Markets, Platforms & Institutions
How should rules, prices, contracts, and technologies shape participation, access, coordination, and welfare?
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Dynamic Scheduling of Nursing Home Inspections Under Strategic Incentives
How should a capacity-constrained regulator schedule inspections when inspections both reveal latent quality and change providers' future quality choices?
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The Empty Promise: When Do P2P Platforms Fail to Serve Advance-Booking Customers?
Why can dynamic pricing destabilize advance-booking markets, and how can platforms prevent those markets from collapsing?
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Partial Information in Fork–Join Operations: Evidence from Multi-Brand Cloud Kitchens
How should food-delivery platforms form cross-brand bundles when combining orders creates delay costs for different customers?
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Structuring Online Communities
How do participation costs shape knowledge production, consumption, and the long-run size of an online community?
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Generative AI Shifts Technical Knowledge Production Toward Recombinant Novelty
Which kinds of human-generated knowledge persist after generative AI, and how does AI reshape the structure of knowledge production?
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Payment for Results: Funding Non-Profit Operations
Can outcome-based payment contracts increase social welfare in nonprofit service provision?
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When Collateral Is a Livelihood: Sustaining Access to Productive Assets
When should a lender wait for a low-income borrower to recover rather than repossess and redeploy a productive asset?
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Scaling Sharing Platforms with Supply Constraints with Lease-to-Earn Contracts
Can asset-access contracts expand participation in sharing markets while remaining financially sustainable and welfare-improving?
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