Research

Affiliations

Computational Social Science Lab at Penn, Research Assistant (2023–)

Dr. Francis Diebold Econometrics Reading Group (2024–)

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Economic Research Intern (2023, 2024)

Behavior Change for Good Initiative, Research Assistant (2022–2023)

Working Papers

Luxury Exclusivity in the Digital Age: A Conjoint Approach
Thomas H. Li, advised by Jere Behrman and Z. John Zhang. (Senior Thesis).

Trajectory Mining in the Face of High Sparsity
Francisco Barreras, Thomas H. Li, Duncan J. Watts.

The Global Transmission of Inflation Uncertainty
Thomas H. Li, Juan M. Londono, and Sai Ma. FEDS Notes.

Conference Presentations

Trajectory Data Mining in Highly Sparse Location Datasets
Thomas H. Li, Francisco Barreras, and Duncan J. Watts. International Conference on Computational Social Science 2024 (Oral Talk).

Writing Samples

Chasing the Golden Forecast: Seasonality and Social Media in Forecasting Daily Movie Ticket Sales
Paper for MKTG 7760: Applied Probability Models in Marketing (Fader).

Lifetime Job Mobility in the United States: A Negative Binomial Analysis
Paper for MKTG 7760: Applied Probability Models in Marketing (Fader).

A Bayesian VAR Analysis of Fiscal Policy in New Zealand
Term Paper for ECON 4310: Macroeconometric Techniques and Applications (Schorfheide).

Research Assistance and Acknowledgements

Global Inflation Uncertainty and its Economic Effects
Juan M. Londono, Sai Ma, and Beth Anne Wilson. FEDS Notes (2023).

Megastudy Shows that Reminders Boost Vaccination but Adding Free Rides Does Not
Katherine L. Milkman, Sean F. Ellis, Dena M. Gromet, Youngwoo Jung, Alex S. Luscher, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Madeline K. Paxson, Ramon A. Silvera Zumaran, Robert Kuan, Ron Berman, Neil A. Lewis Jr, John A. List, Mitesh S. Patel, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp, Maryann V. Beauvais, Jonathon K. Bellows, Cheryl A. Marandola, and Angela L. Duckworth. Nature (2024).