Yingyao Hu

Selected Publications

Microeconomic models with latent variables: applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics

This paper reviews recent developments in nonparametric identification of measurement error models and their applications in […]

Yingyao Hu
26 January 2015 | CWP03/15
Nonparametric identification and semiparametric estimation of classical measurement error models without side information

Virtually all methods aimed at correcting for covariate measurement error in regressions rely on some form […]

Susanne M. Schennach, Yingyao Hu
3 December 2012 | CWP40/12

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Estimating production functions with robustness against errors in the proxy variables

This paper proposes a new semi-nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation method for estimating production functions. The method […]

Guofang Huang, Yingyao Hu
15 November 2011 | CWP35/11
Nonparametric identification using instrumental variables: sufficient conditions for completeness

This paper provides sufficient conditions for the nonparametric identification of the regression function m(.) in a […]

Yingyao Hu, Ji-Liang Shiu
25 June 2011 | CWP25/11
Nonparametric learning rules from bandit experiments: the eyes have it!

We estimate nonparametric learning rules using data from dynamic two-armed bandit (probabilistic reversal learning) experiments, supplemented […]

Yingyao Hu, Yutaka Kayaba, Matthew Shum
10 June 2010 | CWP15/10

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Nonparametric learning rules from bandit experiments: the eyes have it!
Yingyao Hu, Yutaka Kayaba, Matthew Shum
30 September 2013 | Journal Article
Well-posedness of measurement error models for self-reported data

It is widely admitted that the inverse problem of estimating the distribution of a latent variable […]

Yonghong An, Yingyao Hu
3 December 2009 | CWP35/09

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Well-posedness of measurement error models for self-reported data
Yonghong An, Yingyao Hu
30 June 2012 | Journal Article
Nonparametric identification of auction models with non-separable unobserved heterogeneity

We propose a novel methodology for nonparametric identification of first-price auction models with independent private values, […]

Yingyao Hu, David McAdams, Matthew Shum
9 July 2009 | CWP15/09
Nonparametric identification of dynamic models with unobserved state variables

We consider the identification of a Markov process {Wt, Xt*} for t=1,2,…,T when only {Wt} for […]

Yingyao Hu, Matthew Shum
28 May 2008 | CWP13/08

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Nonparametric identification of dynamic models with unobserved state variables
Yingyao Hu, Matthew Shum
30 November 2012 | Journal Article
Identifying the returns to lying when the truth is unobserved

Consider an observed binary regressor D and an unobserved binary variable D*, both of which affect […]

Yingyao Hu, Arthur Lewbel
11 February 2008 | CWP06/08
Nonparametric identification and estimation of nonclassical errors-in-variables models without additional information

This paper considers identification and estimation of a nonparametric regression model with an unobserved discrete covariate. […]

Xiaohong Chen, Yingyao Hu, Arthur Lewbel
13 August 2007 | CWP18/07

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