My researches use diversified methods, including mathematical modeling, experimental design and a wide range of statistical methods, to look at questions of methodology importance or policy relevance. I am particularly interested in investigating how people make decisions under risks in the areas of labor economics, health economics, and applied econometrics. In a current project, my coauthors and I are applying Bayesian econometric methods to uncover the decision process that people follow in making choices in simple situations that involve risk. Particularly, we are interested in addressing the heterogeneity among people when making such decisions, and we address this issue using mixture modeling as well as Bayesian hierarchical modeling approaches.
