About
Bio
I am a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at New York University and a Lecturer in the Business Economics and Public Policy (BEPP) Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University, with specializations in Labor Economics, Econometrics, and Machine Learning.
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Research
Book Chapters
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Maasoumi, E., Cahn, Y. (2025). Measuring ‘Income’ Inequality and Distribution of Outcomes. In: Baltagi, B.H., Mátyás, L. (eds) Seven Decades of Econometrics and Beyond. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 57. Springer, Cham.
Work in Progress
- "High Dimensional Examination of Intergenerational Mobility with Random Forest and Gradient Boosting" (with Esfandiar Maasoumi)
- "The Effect of Minimum Wage on the Distribution of Hours Worked in the U.S."
- "From Effort to Free: the Zero-Price Effect in Non-Monetary Contexts" (with Liheng Xu and Bining Yang)
- "Prediction Error Decomposition with Structural Models"