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)
Awards and Honors
Simon Kuznets Fellowship Award in Economics (2024)
Awarded to 3 juniors (out of ~200) with outstanding potential in economics, upon recommendation of the Penn economics faculty.
Working Papers
“The Global Transmission of Inflation Uncertainty.”
Thomas H. Li, Juan M. Londono, and Sai Ma. FEDS Notes. Forthcoming
“A Synthetic Dataset and Sandbox Environment for Analysis of Pre-processing Algorithms for GPS Human Mobility Data.”
Thomas H. Li and Francisco Barreras. arXiv preprint.
“Trajectory Mining in the Face of High Sparsity.”
Francisco Barreras, Thomas H. Li, Duncan J. Watts.
“Luxury Exclusivity in the Digital Age: A Conjoint Approach.”
Thomas H. Li. (Senior thesis, advised by Jere Behrman and Z. John Zhang.)
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. Parallel 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).