Welcome! This is Qian (Joe) Wu / 吴骞.

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Statistics
at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Missouri in July 2023.

My primary interests in econometrics include multiple testing, frequentist and Bayesian comparisons,
and the refinement of econometric models with an ordinal outcome variable.
I am also interested in applied microeconomics,
particularly in health economics, development economics, and rural economics.

Research

Working Papers

  • Ordinal Decomposition

    2024; submitted
    (with David M. Kaplan)

    paper | code/tex/etc.
    Recommendations for decomposition (like Oaxaca–Blinder) with an ordinal outcome. Also: apparently decomposing the "mean" can be interpreted in terms of survival functions even if you don't believe the cardinalization(!). So existing empirical results from naive OB/OLS decomposition with ordinal Y can be interpreted more robustly.

  • Multiple Testing of Ordinal Stochastic Monotonicity

    2023; submitted
    (with David M. Kaplan)

    paper | code/tex/etc.
    Where is Y "increasing" in X in the distributional sense of stochastic monotonicity? We propose and justify an FWER-controlling multiple testing procedure, which can also be inverted into confidence sets. We apply this to study the relationship between mental health and education.

Work in Progress

  • Bayesian Inference on Ordinal Stochastic Monotonicity

Teaching

  • Intermediate Econometrics (master level), Spring 2024

  • Introductory Econometrics (undergraduate level)

Contact

Email: wuqj@swufe.edu.cn

Address: Chengzheng Building #1303,
School of Statistics,
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics,
555 Liutai Avenue, Wenjiang District,
Chengdu, Sichuan, China 611130