Yuqing (Claire) Wang

PhD Candidate in Economics
University of Michigan

I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan. My research interests are in behavioral, experimental, and labor economics, with a focus on gender.

My current research focuses on the marriage market and women’s careers. In my main project, I use incentivized partner-choice experiments to measure what men value in a partner’s career: her income, her work hours, and her plans after children. I also test whether women correctly predict these preferences. In other work, I study how generative AI is changing research productivity in economics.

My advisor is Christine Exley. I joined the PhD program directly after earning my BS in Economics at the University of Michigan.

Research interests

Behavioral economics · Experimental economics · Labor economics · Gender