Office: RBC 456 Phone: 610-758-4962 Email: muy208@lehigh.edu Microeconometrics (Eco 464) Statistical Methods (Eco 45)

Department of Economics:  Assistant Professor

Education
- Peking University, China, B.A., M.A.
-  University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.

Muzhe Yang joined the Department of Economics at Lehigh University in 2008 after receiving his doctorate in agricultural and resource economics. His research is centered on treatment effects analysis, focusing on two particular settings: one is when the treatment assignment or the selection process follows a transparent rule, and the other one is when the treatment is induced by peer influence. His dissertation, Regression Discontinuity Design and Program Evaluation, discusses one procedure that society and governments follow to allocate resources based on merit or need, and bridges the gap between the theoretical and applied work on the regression discontinuity (RD) design in the presence of multiple selection biases. 

Professor Yang has conducted a series of theoretical and empirical work on the RD design and social interactions, which have been presented at conferences held by Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, European Economic Association, Econometric Society, and International Conference on Panel Data.

Research Interests

• Treatment effect analysis
• Peer effect analysis
• Counterfactuals and causal inference

Publications and Working Papers

• “Regression Discontinuity Design: Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with Multiple Selection Biases”
• "Does Physician Peer Effect Exist? Evidence from New Drug Presciption"
• “Identification and Estimation of Social Interaction-Based Models: A Changes-in-Changes Approach with an Application to Adolescent Substance Use”

 

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