Photo of Darwin Yang

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Princeton University. My research interests are in econometrics, with a focus on methods for handling unobserved heterogeneity.

I am on the 2026-27 job market.

Job Market Paper

Moment Inequalities in Regressions with Incompletely Observed Covariates
Download Paper (PDF)
Abstract: In economic applications with missing or set-valued data, standard assumptions like missing-at-random are untestable and often difficult to justify. In this paper, I study identification in mean regression models with incomplete covariate data under "worst-case" conditions: the process determining observability is unknown and unrestricted. To make progress, I develop a new methodology inspired by the panel literature. I represent model features with minimal assumptions as unobserved heterogeneity, and I then target a minimal collection of functions which have non-negative expectations with respect to the heterogeneity. This approach turns out to be tractable, and I obtain conditional moment inequalities which completely characterize identification in the incomplete data models. The method is also versatile; I illustrate how it can be used in other settings. Finally, numerical exercises demonstrate the identification potential of the derived moment inequalities, as well as their feasibility for use in environments which are close to empirical practice.

Work in Progress

A Moment Problem Approach to Semiparametric Discrete Outcome Panel Models with Fixed Effects
Fixed Effect Functions and Structural Dynamics in Panel Logit Models

Teaching

ECO 300: Microeconomic Theory (Undergraduate), Teaching Assistant
Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025
ECO 517: Econometric Theory I (Graduate), Teaching Assistant
Fall 2023