中文 / Chinese

Yulai Gaokao AI (雨来高考 AI)

Yulai Gaokao AI (gaokao.yusoong.com) — a public-interest, AI-powered college-application decision assistant built by Yu Soong Lab (Dr. Xiaoyang Ye). It helps Chinese students navigate the college-application process: understanding admission rules, exploring their interests and majors, refining their application lists, and getting personalized AI guidance. I am the main contributor to its matching database.

Please feel free to try it out — we’d love to hear your feedback to help us improve. 🙇🏻‍♀️

Chinese Writing

Here you can find some Chinese-language pieces related to my research interests, including articles I’ve contributed to and others that feature or discuss my work. All of them are published on “依然糅春天,” Dr. Xiaoyang Ye’s WeChat Official Account. If you are interested in the economics of education, causal inference, machine learning, or Chinese college application guidance resources, I highly recommend visiting the account for more insightful materials. 😊

Causal Inference Checklist 番外篇：教育经济学2022年科举论文29篇

In this article, I helped compile a collection of job-market papers (papers #8–29 in the article) in the field of economics of education for the 2022–23 academic year, based on information shared by Joshua Goodman's Twitter. I also translated their abstracts into Chinese.

大学数学太痛苦了，为什么我们文科生还要学？

This article discusses why we should study mathematics and computer science even after entering college, especially for students in the humanities. I drafted it and compiled several learning resources for mathematics and computer science (including Python, R, and machine learning), and Dr. Xiaoyang Ye refined the final version.

野生审稿人#2 | 橡胶降价了，西双版纳的小和尚们，都在努力准备高考

This article is fully credited to Dr. Xiaoyang Ye. It provides a detailed introduction and insightful commentary on my joint work with Jingcheng Jiang, "International Agricultural Price Shocks and Child Labor: The Role of Crop Choice in Rural China," which was accepted for presentation at the Young Scholars Forum on Education Finance Research in China (Peking University, 2025).

Yu Soong Lab的第一篇经济学论文发表了：《朋友能帮你上大学吗？》

This article introduces my joint work with Dr. Xiaoyang Ye, "Peer Effects on College Choice: Evidence from Affirmative Action in China," published in Labour Economics.