Welcome to my website. 

I am a final year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan.

My research interests lie in Public Finance and Energy and Environmental Economics. I combine theory and empirical methods to study how tax and subsidy design shapes clean-technology adoption and the distribution of benefits and costs.  A central theme of my work is understanding how policy design can balance equity and efficiency.

I am on the job market for the 2025-26 academic year.  My job market paper combines empirics and optimal tax theory to study US income-capped EV subsidies: (1) ZIP-level registration shows that the cap reduced higher-income EV adoption, revealing anefficiency-equity trade-off; and (2) a theoretical framework provides sufficient-statistics guidance for the optimal income threshold and subsidy level, incorporating heterogeneity in externality, adoption elasticities, and welfare weights.

I will present my JMP at NTA, AERE@ASSA Annual Meeting and NABE-TEC this year.  I would be happy to connect and chat about research!

You can view my CV here.

Email: yiyunw@umich.edu