Policy Targeting with Binary Classification Trees: an Application to Rural Hospital Closures
With Hongying Li.
Research
Working Papers
Identifying Inattention and Active Choice in Incomplete Social Assistance Takeup: The Case of WIC
With Sooa Ahn.
Publications
Policy-Oriented Binary Classification: Improving (KD-)CART Final Splits for Subpopulation Targeting
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 300, 721–729, 2026
With Zhenbang Jiao and Fangyi Wang.
Balancing Efficiency and Equity in Classroom Assignment under Endogenous Peer Effects
Journal of Applied Economics, 29(1), 2026
With Om Prakash Bedant, Zhenbang Jiao, and Haoran Wang.
First place, 2024 Hayes Forum Poster Competition.
Predoctoral Work
A Cost-Effective Approach to Portfolio Construction with Range-Based Risk Measures
Quantitative Finance, 21(3), 431–447, 2021
With Chi Seng Pun.
Financial Thought Experiment: A GAN-Based Approach to Vast Robust Portfolio Selection
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth IJCAI, Special Track on AI in FinTech, 2020
With Chi Seng Pun and Hoi Ying Wong.
Pareto Criterion and Long-Term Perspective Criterion under Myopic Discounting
Economics Bulletin, 39(1), 24–32, 2019
With Minwook Kang.