Yuehao Bai
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. My research interests lie in econometric theory.
For the 2024–25 academic year, I am on leave at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.
Software package
Published or forthcoming papers
- (2025) “A Primer on the Analysis of Randomized Experiments and a Survey of some Recent Advances” (with A. M. Shaikh and M. Tabord-Meehan), forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics. doi
- (2024) “Inference in Experiments with Matched Pairs and Imperfect Compliance” (with H. Guo, A. M. Shaikh, and M. Tabord-Meehan), forthcoming in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. doi
- (2024) “Inference in Cluster Randomized Trials with Matched Pairs” (with J. Liu, A. M. Shaikh, and M. Tabord-Meehan), Journal of Econometrics 245(1–2), 105873. doi supplement
- (2024) “Inference for Matched Tuples and Fully Blocked Factorial Designs” (with J. Liu and M. Tabord-Meehan), Quantitative Economics 15(2), 279–330. doi supplement code
- (2024) “Covariate Adjustment in Experiments with Matched Pairs” (with L. Jiang, J. P. Romano, A. M. Shaikh, and Y. Zhang), Journal of Econometrics 241(1), 105740. doi supplement
- (2024) “Revisiting the Analysis of Matched-Pair and Stratified Experiments in the Presence of Attrition” (with M. H. Hsieh, J. Liu, and M. Tabord-Meehan), Journal of Applied Econometrics 39(2), 256–268. doi supplement code
- (2023) “Why Randomize? Minimax Optimality under Permutation Invariance,” Journal of Econometrics 232(2), 565–575. doi
- (2022) “Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials,” American Economic Review 112(12), 3911–3940. doi supplement code
- (2022) “Inference in Experiments with Matched Pairs” (with J. P. Romano and A. M. Shaikh), Journal of the American Statistical Association 117(540), 1726–1737. doi supplement code
- (2022) “A Two-Step Method for Testing Many Moment Inequalities” (with A. Santos and A. M. Shaikh), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 40(3), 1070–1080. doi code
- (2021) “Inference for Support Vector Regression under $\ell_1$ Regularization” (with H. Ho, G. A. Pouliot, and J. K. C. Shea), AEA Papers and Proceedings 111, 611–615. doi
Working papers
- (2025) “On the Efficiency of Finely Stratified Experiments” (with J. Liu, A. M. Shaikh, and M. Tabord-Meehan), revision requested by the Annals of Statistics. doi
- (2025) “Sharp Testable Implications of Encouragement Designs” (with S. Huang and M. Tabord-Meehan), working paper. doi
- (2025) “A New Design-Based Variance Estimator for Finely Stratified Experiments” (with X. Huang, J. P. Romano, A. M. Shaikh, and M. Tabord-Meehan), working paper. doi
- (2024) “Inference for Treatment Effects Conditional on Generalized Principal Strata using Instrumental Variables” (with S. Huang, S. Moon, A. Santos, A. M. Shaikh, and E. J. Vytlacil), working paper. doi
- (2024) “On the Identifying Power of Monotonicity for Average Treatment Effects” (with S. Huang, S. Moon, A. M. Shaikh, and E. J. Vytlacil), revision requested by the Journal of the American Statistical Association. doi
- (2022) “On Testing Systems of Linear Inequalities with Known Coefficients” (with A. Santos and A. M. Shaikh), working paper.