Yisroel Cahn

About

Bio

  I am a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University in the Department of Economics. I received my PhD in Economics from Emory University with specializations in Labor Economics, Econometrics, and Machine Learning.

  Preveously, I taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Statistics and Data Science.

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Research

  • "Estimating Jointly Determined Outcomes: How Minimum Wage affects Wages and Hours Worked" (Job Market Paper)
  • "On Measures of Inequality and Distribution of Outcomes” (with Esfandiar Maasoumi)
  • Revise & Resubmit: Journal of Economic Literature
  • "Who Needs Help: Off-the-shelf Machine Learning Methods to Predict Income Mobility" (with Esfandiar Maasoumi)
  • "Prediction Error Decomposition with Structural Models"

Teaching